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title: Dorothy ate a hearty supper and was waited upon by the rich Munchkin… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: Dorothy ate a hearty supper and was waited upon by the rich Munchkin himself, whose name was Boq. Who acts: Dorothy, name, Boq. 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 36

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Dorothy ate a hearty supper and was waited upon by the rich Munchkin himself, whose name was Boq.

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**Who acts:** Dorothy, name, Boq · **What happens:** eat, wait, be, name · **To what, where:** hearty supper, rich Munchkin, Boq

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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, name, Boq), 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:pg55:5:36
# text = Dorothy ate a hearty supper and was waited upon by the rich Munchkin himself, whose name was Boq.
1	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ate	eat	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	hearty	hearty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	waited	wait	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Munchkin	Munchkin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	13	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	Boq	Boq	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past | Dorothy | a hearty supper |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Patient |
| 2 | **wait** | past · passive | Dorothy *not said here* |  |  | the rich Munchkin  Kansas and Boq |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: upon munchkin=Location |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Boq's name | Boq |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **name** |  | Boq |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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