--- title: As quick as lightning the man’s head shot forward and his neck stret… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: As quick as lightning the man’s head shot forward and his neck stretched out until the top of the head, where it was flat, struck the Scarecrow in the middle and sent him tumbling, over and over, down the hill. Who acts: head, neck. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapte --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/24/13/) [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 XXII. The Country of the Quadl…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/24/) / 13 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings, sentence 13 As quick as lightning the man’s head shot forward and his neck stretched out until the top of the head, where it was flat, struck the Scarecrow in the middle and sent him tumbling, over and over, down the hill. **Who acts:** head, neck · **What happens:** shoot, stretch out, be, strike, send, tumble · **To what, where:** neck, Scarecrow, middle, hill 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 (head, neck), 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:pg55:24:13 # text = As quick as lightning the man’s head shot forward and his neck stretched out until the top of the head, where it was flat, struck the Scarecrow in the middle and sent him tumbling, over and over, down the hill. 1 As as ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 quick quick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 3 as as SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 4 lightning lightning NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 fixed _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ’s 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 shot shoot VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 10 forward forward ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 stretched stretch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ _ 15 out out ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 until until ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 26 advmod _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 struck strike VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 Scarecrow scarecrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 36 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 tumbling tumble VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 35 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 39 over over ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 over over ADV RB _ 39 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 down down ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shoot** | past | the man's head | | | | | forward *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **stretch out** | participle · passive | | creature's neck | | | until the top of the head | | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **is** | past | neck | | | | | flat *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **strike** | past | the man's head *not said here* | the Scarecrow | | the middle | | | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scarecrow=Patient | | 5 | **send** | past | the man's head *not said here* | Scarecrow | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 6 | **tumble** | gerund | the man's head *not said here* | | | the hill | | over *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme down hill=Initial\_Location | 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 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/24/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/24/14/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/24/)