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title: She took a little basket and filled it with bread from the cupboard,… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: She took a little basket and filled it with bread from the cupboard, laying a white cloth over the top. Who acts: girl. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 10

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She took a little basket and filled it with bread from the cupboard, laying a white cloth over the top.

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**Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** take, fill, lay · **To what, where:** little basket, basket, cupboard, white cloth, top

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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:pg55:5:10
# text = She took a little basket and filled it with bread from the cupboard, laying a white cloth over the top.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	laying	lay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	over	over	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	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 | **take** | past | girl | a little basket |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Theme |
| 2 | **fill** | past | girl *not said here* | basket |  | the cupboard |  | with bread | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with bread=Instrument |
| 3 | **lay** | gerund | girl *not said here* | a white cloth |  | the top |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme over top=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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