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title: After climbing down from the china wall the travelers found themselv… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: After climbing down from the china wall the travelers found themselves in a disagreeable country, full of bogs and marshes and covered with tall, rank grass. Who acts: travelers. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts, with its d
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts, sentence 1

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After climbing down from the china wall the travelers found themselves in a disagreeable country, full of bogs and marshes and covered with tall, rank grass.

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**Who acts:** travelers · **What happens:** climb down, find, cover · **To what, where:** china wall, travelers, disagreeable country

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (travelers), 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:pg55:23:1
# text = After climbing down from the china wall the travelers found themselves in a disagreeable country, full of bogs and marshes and covered with tall, rank grass.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	climbing	climb	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
3	down	down	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	china	china	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	travelers	traveler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	disagreeable	disagreeable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	bogs	bog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	marshes	marsh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	rank	rank	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb down** | gerund | the travelers *not said here* |  |  | the china wall |  | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from wall=Trajectory |
| 2 | **find** | past | the travelers | travelers *= traveler* |  | a disagreeable country |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Topic |
| 3 | **cover** | participle | the travelers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with tall rank grass | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with grass=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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