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title: Dorothy reached up both arms and lifted the figure off the pole, for… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: Dorothy reached up both arms and lifted the figure off the pole, for, being stuffed with straw, it was quite light. Who acts: Dorothy, pole. 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
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 77

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Dorothy reached up both arms and lifted the figure off the pole, for, being stuffed with straw, it was quite light.

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**Who acts:** Dorothy, pole · **What happens:** reach up, lift, stuff, be · **To what, where:** arms, figure, pole, quite light

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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, pole), 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:pg55:5:77
# text = Dorothy reached up both arms and lifted the figure off the pole, for, being stuffed with straw, it was quite light.
1	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	off	off	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	pole	pole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	stuffed	stuff	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	quite	quite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach up** | past | Dorothy | both arms |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent arm=Theme |
| 2 | **lift** | past | Dorothy *not said here* | the figure |  | the pole |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent figure=Theme off pole=Destination |
| 3 | **stuff** | gerund · passive | Dorothy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with straw | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: with straw=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past | pole | quite light |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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