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title: At once the tree began shaking all its branches as if in pain, and t… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: At once the tree began shaking all its branches as if in pain, and the Tin Woodman passed safely under it. Who acts: tree, Tin Woodman. 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 claus
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees, sentence 42

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At once the tree began shaking all its branches as if in pain, and the Tin Woodman passed safely under it.

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**Who acts:** tree, Tin Woodman · **What happens:** begin, shake, pass · **To what, where:** branches, tree

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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 (tree, Tin Woodman), 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:pg55:21:42
# text = At once the tree began shaking all its branches as if in pain, and the Tin Woodman passed safely under it.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	shaking	shake	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Tin	Tin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	safely	safely	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	under	under	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | the tree |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **shake** | gerund | the tree *not said here* | tree's branches |  |  |  | as pain | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent branch=Patient |
| 3 | **pass** | past | the Tin Woodman |  |  | tree |  | safely *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under it=Location |

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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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