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title: “The trees seem to have made up their minds to fight us, and stop ou… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: “The trees seem to have made up their minds to fight us, and stop our journey,” remarked the Lion. Who acts: trees, Lion, travelers, our. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees, sentence 39

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“The trees seem to have made up their minds to fight us, and stop our journey,” remarked the Lion.

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**Who acts:** trees, Lion, travelers, our · **What happens:** seem, make up, fight, stop, remark, mind · **To what, where:** minds, us, journey · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (trees, Lion, travelers, our), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg55:21:39
# text = “The trees seem to have made up their minds to fight us, and stop our journey,” remarked the Lion.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	seem	seem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	ccomp	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	xcomp	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	minds	mind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
13	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
21	remarked	remark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** *in a quote* | present | the trees |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **make up** *in a quote* | to-infinitive · perfect | the trees *not said here* | travelers's minds |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot |
| 3 | **fight** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the trees *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **stop** *in a quote* | present | the trees *not said here* | our journey |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality journey=Eventuality |
| 5 | **remark** *speech: assert* | past | the Lion |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **mind** *in a quote* |  | travelers *= traveler* |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **journey** *in a quote* |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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.

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