--- title: The people greeted Dorothy kindly, and invited her to supper and to… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: The people greeted Dorothy kindly, and invited her to supper and to pass the night with them; for this was the home of one of the richest Munchkins in the land, and his friends were gathered with him to celebrate their freedom from the bondage of the Wicked Witch. Who acts: people, Dorothy, this. A --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/5/35/) [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/) / 35 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 35 The people greeted Dorothy kindly, and invited her to supper and to pass the night with them; for this was the home of one of the richest Munchkins in the land, and his friends were gathered with him to celebrate their freedom from the bondage of the Wicked Witch. **Who acts:** people, Dorothy, this · **What happens:** greet, invite, supper, pass, be, gather · **To what, where:** Dorothy, friends, freedom, bondage 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 (people, Dorothy, this), 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:pg55:5:35 # text = The people greeted Dorothy kindly, and invited her to supper and to pass the night with them; for this was the home of one of the richest Munchkins in the land, and his friends were gathered with him to celebrate their freedom from the bondage of the Wicked Witch. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 greeted greet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 Dorothy Dorothy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 kindly kindly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 invited invite VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 supper supper VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 21 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 24 nsubj _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nmod _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 richest rich ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 30 amod _ _ 30 Munchkins munchkin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 36 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj:pass _ _ 38 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux:pass _ _ 39 gathered gather VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 40 with with ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obl _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 celebrate celebrate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 advcl _ _ 44 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 freedom freedom NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ _ 46 from from ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 bondage bondage NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 49 of of ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 51 Wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 amod _ _ 52 Witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **greet** *speech: greet* | past | the people | | Dorothy | | | kindly *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dorothy=Theme | | 2 | **invite** | past | the people *not said here* | Dorothy | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **supper** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Dorothy *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **pass** | to-infinitive | Dorothy *not said here* | | | | night | with people | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is** | past | this | | | | | for the home; of one of the richest Munchkins in the land | tree rules | | 6 | **gather** | past · passive | | Kansas's friends | | | | with Kansas | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient with he=Co-Patient | | 7 | **celebrate** | to-infinitive | | people's freedom | | the bondage of the Wicked Witch | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent freedom=Theme | 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 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/5/34/) - next →: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/5/36/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/5/)