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title: The Witch gave Dorothy a friendly little nod, whirled around on her… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: The Witch gave Dorothy a friendly little nod, whirled around on her left heel three times, and straightway disappeared, much to the surprise of little Toto, who barked after her loudly enough when she had gone, because he had been afraid even to growl while she stood by. Who acts: Witch, straightway
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, “let Dorothy Go to the City of Emeralds”, sentence 22

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The Witch gave Dorothy a friendly little nod, whirled around on her left heel three times, and straightway disappeared, much to the surprise of little Toto, who barked after her loudly enough when she had gone, because he had been afraid even to growl while she stood by.

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**Who acts:** Witch, straightway, surprise, Dorothy · **What happens:** give, whirl around, disappear, bark, go, be · **To what, where:** friendly little nod, Dorothy, left heel, little Toto

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, “let Dorothy Go to the City of Emeralds”. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Witch, straightway, surprise, 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:pg55:4:22
# text = The Witch gave Dorothy a friendly little nod, whirled around on her left heel three times, and straightway disappeared, much to the surprise of little Toto, who barked after her loudly enough when she had gone, because he had been afraid even to growl while she stood by.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Witch	Witch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	iobj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	nod	nod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	whirled	whirl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
11	around	around	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	heel	heel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	straightway	straightway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	much	much	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	Toto	Toto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	barked	bark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
33	after	after	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	_
35	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
36	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	40	advmod	_	_
38	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
42	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
43	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
44	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
45	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	46	cop	_	_
46	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	advcl	_	_
47	even	even	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
49	growl	growl	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	ccomp	_	_
50	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
51	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
52	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	advcl	_	_
53	by	by	ADP	IN	_	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | the Witch | a friendly little nod | Dorothy |  | time |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent dorothy=Recipient nod=Theme |
| 2 | **whirl around** | participle |  | a friendly little nod *not said here* |  | Witch's left heel |  | around *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on heel=Trajectory |
| 3 | **disappear** | past | straightway |  |  |  |  | to the surprise of little Toto | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **bark** | past | the surprise of little Toto |  |  |  | after Witch | loudly *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **go** | past · perfect | straightway |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | past · perfect | Dorothy |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **growl** | to-infinitive | Dorothy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **stand by** | past | straightway |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **surprise** |  |  | little Toto |  |  |  |  | nom surprise «feeling transitive»: of=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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