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title: A little farther on Dorothy met a most beautifully dressed young Pri… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: A little farther on Dorothy met a most beautifully dressed young Princess, who stopped short as she saw the strangers and started to run away. Who acts: dressed young Princess, Dorothy. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, with its depend
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 44

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A little farther on Dorothy met a most beautifully dressed young Princess, who stopped short as she saw the strangers and started to run away.

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**Who acts:** dressed young Princess, Dorothy · **What happens:** meet, dress, stop, see, start, run away · **To what, where:** dressed young Princess, Dorothy, strangers

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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 (dressed young Princess, Dorothy), 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:pg55:22:44
# text = A little farther on Dorothy met a most beautifully dressed young Princess, who stopped short as she saw the strangers and started to run away.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	_
3	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
6	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
8	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	9	advmod	_	_
9	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
11	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	away	away	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past |  | a dressed young Princess |  | Dorothy |  | far *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **dress** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | beautifully *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **stop** | past | a dressed young Princess |  |  |  |  | short *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **see** | past | Dorothy | the strangers |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stranger=Stimulus |
| 5 | **start** | past | Dorothy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **run away** | to-infinitive | Dorothy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | 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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