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title: They had nearly reached the first rock when they heard a rough voice… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: They had nearly reached the first rock when they heard a rough voice cry out, “Keep back!” Who acts: others, rough voice. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings, sentence 4

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They had nearly reached the first rock when they heard a rough voice cry out, “Keep back!”

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**Who acts:** others, rough voice · **What happens:** reach, hear, cry out, keep back · **To what, where:** first rock, rough voice · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (others, rough voice), 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:pg55:24:4
# text = They had nearly reached the first rock when they heard a rough voice cry out, “Keep back!”
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	reached	reach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	amod	_	_
7	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
19	back	back	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past · perfect | others *= other* | the first rock |  |  |  | nearly *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent rock=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | past | others *= other* | a rough voice |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cry out** *speech: express* | infinitive | a rough voice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **keep back** *in a quote* | infinitive | a rough voice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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