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title: She reached down and picked up the shoes, and after shaking the dust… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: She reached down and picked up the shoes, and after shaking the dust out of them handed them to Dorothy. Who acts: old. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 80

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She reached down and picked up the shoes, and after shaking the dust out of them handed them to Dorothy.

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**Who acts:** old · **What happens:** reach down, pick up, shake, hand · **To what, where:** shoes, dust, 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 (old), 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:pg55:3:80
# text = She reached down and picked up the shoes, and after shaking the dust out of them handed them to Dorothy.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	down	down	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	picked	pick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
11	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	shaking	shake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
18	handed	hand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach down** | past | old |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pick up** | participle | old *not said here* | the shoes |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Topic |
| 3 | **shake** | gerund |  | the dust |  |  |  | out shoes *= shoe* | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent dust=Theme out they=Trajectory |
| 4 | **hand** | past | old *not said here* | shoes *= shoe* | Dorothy |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to dorothy=Destination |

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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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