--- title: So he walked forward to the tree, but just as he came under the firs… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: So he walked forward to the tree, but just as he came under the first branches they bent down and twined around him, and the next minute he was raised from the ground and flung headlong among his fellow travelers. Who acts: room, branches. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/21/32/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Wonderful Wizard of Oz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/) / [Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/21/) / 32 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees, sentence 32 So he walked forward to the tree, but just as he came under the first branches they bent down and twined around him, and the next minute he was raised from the ground and flung headlong among his fellow travelers. **Who acts:** room, branches · **What happens:** walk, come, bend down, twine, raise, fling · **To what, where:** first branches, next minute, ground This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (room, branches), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg55:21:32 # text = So he walked forward to the tree, but just as he came under the first branches they bent down and twined around him, and the next minute he was raised from the ground and flung headlong among his fellow travelers. 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 forward forward ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 just just ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 11 as as SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 14 under under ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 17 amod _ _ 17 branches branch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 bent bend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 20 down down ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 twined twine VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 23 around around ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 minute minute NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 raised raise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 33 from from ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 flung fling VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 38 headlong headlong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 xcomp _ _ 39 among among ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 41 fellow fellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 travelers traveler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **walk** | past | room | | | | | to the tree *result*; forward *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to tree=Result | | 2 | **come** | past | room | | | the first branches | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under branch=Location | | 3 | **bend down** | past | branches *= branch* | the first branches *not said here* | | | | down *property* | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent branch=Material | | 4 | **twine** | past | branches *= branch* *not said here* | | | | | around room | vn coil-9.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around he=Destination | | 5 | **raise** | past · passive | | the next minute | | the ground | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme from ground=Destination | | 6 | **fling** | past | | | | | | headlong *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Project Gutenberg book 55 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/21/31/) - next →: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/21/33/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/21/)