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title: When they were all quite presentable they followed the soldier girl… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: When they were all quite presentable they followed the soldier girl into a big room where the Witch Glinda sat upon a throne of rubies. Who acts: joints, Witch Glinda. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish, with its de
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish, sentence 2

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When they were all quite presentable they followed the soldier girl into a big room where the Witch Glinda sat upon a throne of rubies.

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**Who acts:** joints, Witch Glinda · **What happens:** be, follow, sit · **To what, where:** soldier girl, big room, throne

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (joints, Witch Glinda), 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:pg55:25:2
# text = When they were all quite presentable they followed the soldier girl into a big room where the Witch Glinda sat upon a throne of rubies.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	presentable	presentable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
16	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	20	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Witch	Witch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Glinda	Glinda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
21	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	rubies	ruby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | joints *= joint* |  |  |  |  | all, presentable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **follow** | past | joints *= joint* | the soldier girl |  | a big room |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent girl=Theme into room=Trajectory |
| 3 | **sit** | past | the Witch Glinda |  |  | a throne of rubies |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon throne=Location |

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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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