--- title: Toto whimpered a little, but none of the others was frightened, and… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: Toto whimpered a little, but none of the others was frightened, and they kept along the well-trodden path until they came to an opening in the wood, in which were gathered hundreds of beasts of every variety. Who acts: Toto, Woodman. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapt --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/23/18/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Wonderful Wizard of Oz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/) / [Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/23/) / 18 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts, sentence 18 Toto whimpered a little, but none of the others was frightened, and they kept along the well-trodden path until they came to an opening in the wood, in which were gathered hundreds of beasts of every variety. **Who acts:** Toto, Woodman · **What happens:** whimper, frighten, keep, tread, come, gather · **To what, where:** little, none, trodden path, opening, hundreds 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 (Toto, Woodman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg55:23:18 # text = Toto whimpered a little, but none of the others was frightened, and they kept along the well-trodden path until they came to an opening in the wood, in which were gathered hundreds of beasts of every variety. 1 Toto Toto PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 whimpered whimper VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 6 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 7 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 12 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 frightened frighten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 17 along along ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 19 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 21 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 trodden tread VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 amod _ _ 22 path path NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 23 until until SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 opening opening NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 obl _ _ 35 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux:pass _ _ 36 gathered gather VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 conj _ _ 37 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 beasts beast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nmod _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 42 det _ _ 42 variety variety NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **whimper** | past | Toto | a little | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **frighten** | past · passive | | none | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 3 | **keep** | past | Woodman | | | the trodden path | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent along path=Location | | 4 | **tread** | participle | | | | | | well *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **come** | past | Woodman | | | a opening in the wood | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to opening=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **gather** | past · passive | Woodman *not said here* | hundreds of beasts of every variety | | | | | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: hundred=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/23/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/23/19/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/23/)