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title: Within a short time she was walking briskly toward the Emerald City,… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: Within a short time she was walking briskly toward the Emerald City, her silver shoes tinkling merrily on the hard, yellow road-bed. Who acts: Dorothy, silver shoes. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, with its dependency tree an
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 24

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Within a short time she was walking briskly toward the Emerald City, her silver shoes tinkling merrily on the hard, yellow road-bed.

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**Who acts:** Dorothy, silver shoes · **What happens:** walk, tinkle · **To what, where:** short time, Emerald City, hard yellow road bed

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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 (Dorothy, silver shoes), 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:pg55:5:24
# text = Within a short time she was walking briskly toward the Emerald City, her silver shoes tinkling merrily on the hard, yellow road-bed.
1	Within	within	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	briskly	briskly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Emerald	Emerald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	tinkling	tinkle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
18	merrily	merrily	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
21	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past · progressive | Dorothy | a short time *not said here* |  | the Emerald City |  | briskly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent time=Theme toward city=Trajectory |
| 2 | **tinkle** | gerund | Dorothy's silver shoes |  |  | the hard yellow road bed | time | merrily *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bed=Location |

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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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