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title: Aunt Em had just come out of the house to water the cabbages when sh… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: Aunt Em had just come out of the house to water the cabbages when she looked up and saw Dorothy running toward her. Who acts: Aunt, Dorothy. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXIV. Home Again, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXIV. Home Again, sentence 1

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Aunt Em had just come out of the house to water the cabbages when she looked up and saw Dorothy running toward her.

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**Who acts:** Aunt, Dorothy · **What happens:** come out, look up, see, run · **To what, where:** Dorothy

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXIV. Home Again. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Aunt, Dorothy), 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:pg55:26:1
# text = Aunt Em had just come out of the house to water the cabbages when she looked up and saw Dorothy running toward her.
1	Aunt	aunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	Em	Em	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	acl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	cabbages	cabbage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
20	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
22	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** | past · perfect | Aunt |  |  |  |  | of the house  the cabbages; out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **look up** | past | Aunt |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **see** | past | Aunt *not said here* | Dorothy |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dorothy=Stimulus |
| 4 | **run** | gerund | Dorothy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | toward Aunt | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward she=Trajectory |

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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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