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title: Dorothy was an innocent, harmless little girl, who had been carried… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: Dorothy was an innocent, harmless little girl, who had been carried by a cyclone many miles from home; and she had never killed anything in all her life. Who acts: Dorothy, cyclone. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, with its depe
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 27

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Dorothy was an innocent, harmless little girl, who had been carried by a cyclone many miles from home; and she had never killed anything in all her life.

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**Who acts:** Dorothy, cyclone · **What happens:** be, carry, not kill · **To what, where:** innocent harmless little girl, Dorothy

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dorothy, cyclone), 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:pg55:3:27
# text = Dorothy was an innocent, harmless little girl, who had been carried by a cyclone many miles from home; and she had never killed anything in all her life.
1	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
4	innocent	innocent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	harmless	harmless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	cyclone	cyclone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod:unmarked	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
27	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	26	obj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	31	det:predet	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Dorothy | a innocent harmless little girl |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **carry** | past · perfect · passive | a cyclone  many miles from home | a innocent harmless little girl |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **kill** | past · perfect · passive |  | Dorothy |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer anything=Result |

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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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