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title: The sun shone bright and the birds sang sweetly, and Dorothy did not… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: The sun shone bright and the birds sang sweetly, and Dorothy did not feel nearly so bad as you might think a little girl would who had been suddenly whisked away from her own country and set down in the midst of a strange land. Who acts: sun, birds, Dorothy, you. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard 
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 25

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The sun shone bright and the birds sang sweetly, and Dorothy did not feel nearly so bad as you might think a little girl would who had been suddenly whisked away from her own country and set down in the midst of a strange land.

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**Who acts:** sun, birds, Dorothy, you · **What happens:** shine, sing, not feel, think, whisk away, set down · **To what, where:** little girl, own country, midst · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (sun, birds, Dorothy, you), 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:pg55:5:25
# text = The sun shone bright and the birds sang sweetly, and Dorothy did not feel nearly so bad as you might think a little girl would who had been suddenly whisked away from her own country and set down in the midst of a strange land.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
16	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
29	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	aux:pass	_	_
30	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	whisked	whisk	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	ccomp	_	_
32	away	away	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
35	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
39	down	down	ADP	RP	_	38	compound:prt	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shine** | past | the sun |  |  |  |  | bright *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | the birds |  |  |  |  | sweetly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 3 | **not** **feel** | past · do-support | Dorothy |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | might | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **whisk away** | would · perfect · passive |  | a little girl |  | Dorothy's own country |  | away, suddenly *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from country=Source |
| 6 | **set down** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | the midst of a strange land |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in midst=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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