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title: No one did so much as look at the travelers at first, except one lit… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: No one did so much as look at the travelers at first, except one little purple china dog with an extra-large head, which came to the wall and barked at them in a tiny voice, afterwards running away again. Who acts: one, one little purple china dog. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Fr
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 24

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No one did so much as look at the travelers at first, except one little purple china dog with an extra-large head, which came to the wall and barked at them in a tiny voice, afterwards running away again.

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**Who acts:** one, one little purple china dog · **What happens:** look, come, bark, run away · **To what, where:** wall, tiny voice

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, one little purple china dog), 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:pg55:22:24
# text = No one did so much as look at the travelers at first, except one little purple china dog with an extra-large head, which came to the wall and barked at them in a tiny voice, afterwards running away again.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	much	much	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	travelers	traveler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	except	except	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	china	china	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
22	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	barked	bark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	conj	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	conj	_	_
43	away	away	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
44	again	again	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past · do-support | no one |  |  |  |  | at the travelers | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at traveler=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | one little purple china dog with a large head |  |  | the wall |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to wall=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **bark** | participle | one little purple china dog with a large head *not said here* |  |  | a tiny voice |  | at travelers *= traveler* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at they=Stimulus |
| 4 | **run away** | gerund | one little purple china dog with a large head *not said here* |  |  |  | again | afterwards, away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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