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title: The other trees of the forest did nothing to keep them back, so they… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: The other trees of the forest did nothing to keep them back, so they made up their minds that only the first row of trees could bend down their branches, and that probably these were the policemen of the forest, and given this wonderful power in order to keep strangers out of it. Who acts: other tre
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees, sentence 47

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The other trees of the forest did nothing to keep them back, so they made up their minds that only the first row of trees could bend down their branches, and that probably these were the policemen of the forest, and given this wonderful power in order to keep strangers out of it.

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**Who acts:** other trees, branches, first row, these · **What happens:** do, keep back, make up, bend down, be, give · **To what, where:** nothing, branches, minds, policemen, wonderful power, order

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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 (other trees, branches, first row, these), 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:pg55:21:47
# text = The other trees of the forest did nothing to keep them back, so they made up their minds that only the first row of trees could bend down their branches, and that probably these were the policemen of the forest, and given this wonderful power in order to keep strangers out of it.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	minds	mind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	obj	_	_
21	only	only	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	24	amod	_	_
24	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
27	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	bend	bend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl:relcl	_	_
29	down	down	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	obj	_	_
35	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
36	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	39	nsubj	_	_
37	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	policemen	policeman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	conj	_	_
46	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	48	det	_	_
47	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
51	to	to	PART	TO	_	52	mark	_	_
52	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	advcl	_	_
53	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obj	_	_
54	out	out	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | the other trees of the forest | nothing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep back** | to-infinitive | the other trees of the forest *not said here* | branches *= branch* |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **make up** | past | branches *= branch* | branches's minds |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot |
| 4 | **bend down** | could | the first row of trees | branches's minds |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent that=Patient branch=Result |
| 5 | **is a** | past | these | the policemen |  |  |  | of the forest; probably *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **give** | participle | these *not said here* | this wonderful power |  | order |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Theme |
| 7 | **keep** | to-infinitive | these *not said here* | strangers |  | tree |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent stranger=Theme out it=Location |
| 8 | **mind** |  | branches *= branch* |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition 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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