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title: Dorothy saw at once that this was true, so she only nodded and went… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: Dorothy saw at once that this was true, so she only nodded and went on eating her bread. Who acts: Dorothy, this, straw. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 10

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Dorothy saw at once that this was true, so she only nodded and went on eating her bread.

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**Who acts:** Dorothy, this, straw · **What happens:** see, be, nod, go, eat · **To what, where:** bread

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dorothy, this, straw), 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:pg55:6:10
# text = Dorothy saw at once that this was true, so she only nodded and went on eating her bread.
1	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	2	obl	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	nodded	nod	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
16	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	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 | **see** | past | Dorothy |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | past | this |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **nod** | past | straw |  |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **go** | past | straw *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **eat** | gerund | straw *not said here* | straw's bread |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient |

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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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