--- title: Once in a while she would pass a house, and the people came out to l… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: Once in a while she would pass a house, and the people came out to look at her and bow low as she went by; for everyone knew she had been the means of destroying the Wicked Witch and setting them free from bondage. Who acts: Dorothy, people. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Bau --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/5/29/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Wonderful Wizard of Oz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/) / [Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Sca…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/5/) / 29 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 29 Once in a while she would pass a house, and the people came out to look at her and bow low as she went by; for everyone knew she had been the means of destroying the Wicked Witch and setting them free from bondage. **Who acts:** Dorothy, people · **What happens:** pass, come out, look, bow, go by, know · **To what, where:** house, Wicked Witch, people · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg55:5:29 # text = Once in a while she would pass a house, and the people came out to look at her and bow low as she went by; for everyone knew she had been the means of destroying the Wicked Witch and setting them free from bondage. 1 Once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 7 advmod _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 5 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 15 out out ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 18 at at ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 bow bow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 22 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 xcomp _ _ 23 as as SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 ccomp _ _ 26 by by ADP IN _ 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 30 obl _ _ 30 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 31 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 32 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 33 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 35 cop _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 nsubj _ _ 35 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 ccomp _ _ 36 of of SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 37 destroying destroy VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 35 advcl _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 Wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 Witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 setting set VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 37 conj _ _ 43 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 obj _ _ 44 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 xcomp _ _ 45 from from ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 bondage bondage NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pass** | would | Dorothy | a house | | | while | once *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Trajectory | | 2 | **come out** | past | the people | | | | | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **look** | to-infinitive | the people *not said here* | | | | | at Dorothy | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | | 4 | **bow** | present | the people *not said here* | | | | | low *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **go by** | past | Dorothy | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **know** | past | | | | | | for everyone | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 7 | **is** | past · perfect | Dorothy | | | | | mean *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **destroy** | gerund | Dorothy *not said here* | the Wicked Witch | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Patient | | 9 | **set** | gerund | Dorothy *not said here* | people | | | | free *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient they=Result | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/5/28/) - next →: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/5/30/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/5/)