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title: The Munchkins and the Witch first looked at one another, and then at… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: The Munchkins and the Witch first looked at one another, and then at Dorothy, and then shook their heads. Who acts: Munchkins. 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 86

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The Munchkins and the Witch first looked at one another, and then at Dorothy, and then shook their heads.

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**Who acts:** Munchkins · **What happens:** look, shake · **To what, where:** Dorothy, heads

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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 (Munchkins), 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:pg55:3:86
# text = The Munchkins and the Witch first looked at one another, and then at Dorothy, and then shook their heads.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Munchkins	munchkin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	advmod	_	_
7	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
10	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
19	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | the Munchkins and the Witch |  |  | Dorothy |  | at one; first *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at one=Theme |
| 2 | **shake** | past | the Munchkins and the Witch *not said here* | Munchkins's heads |  |  | then |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient |

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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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