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title: The four travelers passed through the rest of the forest in safety,… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: The four travelers passed through the rest of the forest in safety, and when they came out from its gloom saw before them a steep hill, covered from top to bottom with great pieces of rock. Who acts: four travelers, travelers. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXII
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings, sentence 1

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The four travelers passed through the rest of the forest in safety, and when they came out from its gloom saw before them a steep hill, covered from top to bottom with great pieces of rock.

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**Who acts:** four travelers, travelers · **What happens:** pass, come out, see, cover · **To what, where:** rest, steep hill, gloom, top

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (four travelers, 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:pg55:24:1
# text = The four travelers passed through the rest of the forest in safety, and when they came out from its gloom saw before them a steep hill, covered from top to bottom with great pieces of rock.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	travelers	traveler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
18	out	out	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	gloom	gloom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
22	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
23	before	before	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	steep	steep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | the four travelers |  |  | the rest of the forest in safety |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through rest=Location |
| 2 | **come out** | past | travelers *= traveler* |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **see** | past | the four travelers *not said here* | a steep hill |  | safety's gloom | before travelers *= traveler* |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hill=Stimulus |
| 4 | **cover** | participle |  | a steep hill *not said here* |  | top |  | to bottom with great pieces of rock | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: 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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