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title: However, by carefully picking their way, they got safely along until… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: However, by carefully picking their way, they got safely along until they reached solid ground. Who acts: holes. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts, sentence 3

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However, by carefully picking their way, they got safely along until they reached solid ground.

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**Who acts:** holes · **What happens:** pick, get, reach · **To what, where:** way, solid ground

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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 (holes), 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:pg55:23:3
# text = However, by carefully picking their way, they got safely along until they reached solid ground.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	picking	pick	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	safely	safely	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	along	along	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
13	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
16	solid	solid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick** | gerund | holes *= hole* *not said here* | holes's way |  |  |  | carefully *property* | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient |
| 2 | **get** | past | holes *= hole* |  |  |  |  | along, however, safely *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **reach** | past | holes *= hole* | solid ground |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ground=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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