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title: It was opened by the farmer’s wife, and when Dorothy asked for somet… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: It was opened by the farmer’s wife, and when Dorothy asked for something to eat the woman gave them all a good dinner, with three kinds of cake and four kinds of cookies, and a bowl of milk for Toto. Who acts: wife, Dorothy, woman. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings, sentence 35

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It was opened by the farmer’s wife, and when Dorothy asked for something to eat the woman gave them all a good dinner, with three kinds of cake and four kinds of cookies, and a bowl of milk for Toto.

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**Who acts:** wife, Dorothy, woman · **What happens:** open, ask, eat, give · **To what, where:** door, bowl, good dinner, Quadlings

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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 (wife, Dorothy, woman), 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:pg55:24:35
# text = It was opened by the farmer’s wife, and when Dorothy asked for something to eat the woman gave them all a good dinner, with three kinds of cake and four kinds of cookies, and a bowl of milk for Toto.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	opened	open	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
12	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	13	obl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	iobj	_	_
22	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	25	det:predet	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
34	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	cookies	cookie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
43	for	for	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	Toto	Toto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past · passive | the farmer's wife | door |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Dorothy | a bowl of milk for Toto |  |  |  | for something | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **eat** | to-infinitive | Dorothy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **give** | past | the woman | all good dinner and three kinds of cake and four kinds of cookies | Quadlings *= quadling* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient dinner=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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