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title: Instantly she was whirling through the air, so swiftly that all she… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: Instantly she was whirling through the air, so swiftly that all she could see or feel was the wind whistling past her ears. Who acts: bye, whirling, wind. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish, with its dependency tree
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish, sentence 53

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Instantly she was whirling through the air, so swiftly that all she could see or feel was the wind whistling past her ears.

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**Who acts:** bye, whirling, wind · **What happens:** whirl, see, feel, be, whistle · **To what, where:** air, wind

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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 (bye, whirling, wind), 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:pg55:25:53
# text = Instantly she was whirling through the air, so swiftly that all she could see or feel was the wind whistling past her ears.
1	Instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	whirling	whirl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	csubj	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	obl	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
21	whistling	whistle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
22	past	past	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **whirl** | past · progressive | bye |  |  | the air |  | instantly *property* | vn coil-9.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Destination |
| 2 | **see** | could | bye |  |  |  |  | swiftly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **feel** | infinitive | bye *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is a** | past | whirling | the wind |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **whistle** | gerund | the wind *not said here* |  |  |  |  | past bye's ears | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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