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title: While Dorothy was looking earnestly into the queer, painted face of… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: While Dorothy was looking earnestly into the queer, painted face of the Scarecrow, she was surprised to see one of the eyes slowly wink at her. Who acts: Dorothy, one. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, with its dependency tree 
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 64

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While Dorothy was looking earnestly into the queer, painted face of the Scarecrow, she was surprised to see one of the eyes slowly wink at her.

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**Who acts:** Dorothy, one · **What happens:** look, paint, be, see, wink · **To what, where:** one

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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, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg55:234`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg55:5:64
# text = While Dorothy was looking earnestly into the queer, painted face of the Scarecrow, she was surprised to see one of the eyes slowly wink at her.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
5	earnestly	earnestly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	queer	queer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Scarecrow	Scarecrow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	surprised	surprised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	wink	wink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past · progressive | Dorothy |  |  |  |  | into the queer painted face of the Scarecrow; earnestly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into face=Theme |
| 2 | **paint** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | Dorothy |  |  |  |  | surprised *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | Dorothy *not said here* | one of the eyes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **wink** | infinitive | one of the eyes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at Dorothy; slowly *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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