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title: But here the country seemed wilder than ever, and after a long and t… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: But here the country seemed wilder than ever, and after a long and tiresome walk through the underbrush they entered another forest, where the trees were bigger and older than any they had ever seen. Who acts: country, long, holes, trees. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, 
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts, sentence 4

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But here the country seemed wilder than ever, and after a long and tiresome walk through the underbrush they entered another forest, where the trees were bigger and older than any they had ever seen.

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**Who acts:** country, long, holes, trees, any · **What happens:** seem, walk, enter, be, see · **To what, where:** underbrush, forest

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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 (country, long, holes, trees), 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:pg55:23:4
# text = But here the country seemed wilder than ever, and after a long and tiresome walk through the underbrush they entered another forest, where the trees were bigger and older than any they had ever seen.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	wilder	wild	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	xcomp	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	nsubj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	tiresome	tiresome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
17	through	through	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	underbrush	underbrush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
23	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	29	advmod	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	acl:relcl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	conj	_	_
32	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
33	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	37	nsubj	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
35	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	37	advmod	_	_
37	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | the country |  |  | here |  | wild *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **walk** | present | long |  |  | the underbrush |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through underbrush=Trajectory |
| 3 | **enter** | past | holes *= hole* | another forest |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme forest=Destination |
| 4 | **is** | past | the trees |  |  |  |  | big *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | the trees *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **see** | past · perfect | any |  |  |  | ever |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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