--- title: Then a head showed itself over the rock and the same voice said, “Th… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: Then a head showed itself over the rock and the same voice said, “This hill belongs to us, and we don’t allow anyone to cross it.” Who acts: head, same voice, hill, we. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings, with its dependency tree a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/24/6/) [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/) / 6 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings, sentence 6 Then a head showed itself over the rock and the same voice said, “This hill belongs to us, and we don’t allow anyone to cross it.” **Who acts:** head, same voice, hill, we · **What happens:** show, say, belong, not allow, cross · **To what, where:** head, rock, us, anyone, voice · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, same voice, hill, we), 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:pg55:24:6 # text = Then a head showed itself over the rock and the same voice said, “This hill belongs to us, and we don’t allow anyone to cross it.” 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 4 obj _ _ 6 over over ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 “ " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 This this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 17 det _ _ 17 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 belongs belong VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 24 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 25 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 allow allow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 27 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 26 iobj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 cross cross VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 . . PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | past | a head | head | | the rock | then | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent itself=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the same voice | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **belong** *in a quote* | present | this hill | | us | | | | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **not** **allow** *in a quote* | present · do-support | we | | anyone | | | | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer anyone=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **cross** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | voice | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | 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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/24/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/24/7/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/24/)