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title: Glinda the Good stepped down from her ruby throne to give the little… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: Glinda the Good stepped down from her ruby throne to give the little girl a good-bye kiss, and Dorothy thanked her for all the kindness she had shown to her friends and herself. Who acts: Glinda, Dorothy, child. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The G
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish, sentence 50

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Glinda the Good stepped down from her ruby throne to give the little girl a good-bye kiss, and Dorothy thanked her for all the kindness she had shown to her friends and herself.

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**Who acts:** Glinda, Dorothy, child · **What happens:** step down, give, thank, show · **To what, where:** ruby throne, good bye kiss, little girl, child, kindness, friends

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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 (Glinda, Dorothy, child), 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:pg55:25:50
# text = Glinda the Good stepped down from her ruby throne to give the little girl a good-bye kiss, and Dorothy thanked her for all the kindness she had shown to her friends and herself.
1	Glinda	Glinda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Good	Good	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stepped	step	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	ruby	ruby	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	iobj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	bye	bye	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	kiss	kiss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	thanked	thank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	28	det:predet	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	acl:relcl	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **step down** | past | Glinda |  |  | child's ruby throne |  |  | vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give** | to-infinitive | Glinda *not said here* | a good bye kiss | the little girl |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent girl=Recipient kiss=Theme |
| 3 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | Dorothy |  | child |  |  | for all kindness | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent she=Theme for kindness=Attribute |
| 4 | **show** | past · perfect | child | all kindness *not said here* | child's friends |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent kindness=Topic to friend=Recipient |

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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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