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title: As she left them the milkmaid cast many reproachful glances over her… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: As she left them the milkmaid cast many reproachful glances over her shoulder at the clumsy strangers, holding her nicked elbow close to her side. Who acts: body, milkmaid. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, with its dependency tree and
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 41

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As she left them the milkmaid cast many reproachful glances over her shoulder at the clumsy strangers, holding her nicked elbow close to her side.

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**Who acts:** body, milkmaid · **What happens:** leave, cast, hold, nick · **To what, where:** cows, many reproachful glances, shoulder, nicked elbow

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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 (body, milkmaid), 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:pg55:22:41
# text = As she left them the milkmaid cast many reproachful glances over her shoulder at the clumsy strangers, holding her nicked elbow close to her side.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	milkmaid	milkmaid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	cast	cast	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	reproachful	reproachful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	glances	glance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	over	over	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	clumsy	clumsy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	nicked	nick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	elbow	elbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | body | cows *= cow* |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **cast** | past | the milkmaid | many reproachful glances |  | body's shoulder |  | at the clumsy strangers | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent glance=Theme over shoulder=Destination |
| 3 | **hold** | gerund | the milkmaid *not said here* | body's nicked elbow |  |  |  | close *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent elbow=Theme |
| 4 | **nick** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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