--- title: Dorothy was going to ask another question, but just then the Munchki… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: Dorothy was going to ask another question, but just then the Munchkins, who had been standing silently by, gave a loud shout and pointed to the corner of the house where the Wicked Witch had been lying. Who acts: Dorothy, Munchkins, Wicked Witch. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Fran --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/3/75/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Wonderful Wizard of Oz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/) / [Chapter II. The Council with the Munch…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/3/) / 75 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 75 Dorothy was going to ask another question, but just then the Munchkins, who had been standing silently by, gave a loud shout and pointed to the corner of the house where the Wicked Witch had been lying. **Who acts:** Dorothy, Munchkins, Wicked Witch · **What happens:** go, ask, stand, give, point, lie · **To what, where:** question, loud shout, corner 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, Munchkins, Wicked Witch), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg55:3:75 # text = Dorothy was going to ask another question, but just then the Munchkins, who had been standing silently by, gave a loud shout and pointed to the corner of the house where the Wicked Witch had been lying. 1 Dorothy Dorothy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 7 det _ _ 7 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 just just ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 11 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 13 advmod _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Munchkins munchkin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 16 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 aux _ _ 18 standing stand VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 acl _ _ 19 silently silently ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 by by SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 22 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 loud loud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 shout shout NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 pointed point VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 conj _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 corner corner NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 34 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 40 advmod _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 Wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 Witch Witch PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 38 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 39 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 40 aux _ _ 40 lying lie VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past · progressive | Dorothy | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | Dorothy *not said here* | another question | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | | 3 | **stand** | past · perfect · progressive | the Munchkins | | | | | silently *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **give** | past | the Munchkins *not said here* | a loud shout | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shout=Theme | | 5 | **point** | participle | the Munchkins *not said here* | | the corner of the house | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to corner=Recipient | | 6 | **lie** | past · perfect · progressive | the Wicked Witch | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/3/74/) - next →: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/3/76/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/3/)