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title: Sometimes, indeed, they were broken or missing altogether, leaving h… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes, indeed, they were broken or missing altogether, leaving holes that Toto jumped across and Dorothy walked around. Who acts: bricks, Toto, Dorothy. 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 pragmati
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 2

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Sometimes, indeed, they were broken or missing altogether, leaving holes that Toto jumped across and Dorothy walked around.

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**Who acts:** bricks, Toto, Dorothy · **What happens:** be, leave, jump, walk around · **To what, where:** holes

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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 (bricks, Toto, Dorothy), 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:pg55:6:2
# text = Sometimes, indeed, they were broken or missing altogether, leaving holes that Toto jumped across and Dorothy walked around.
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	broken	broken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	missing	missing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
13	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obj	_	_
15	Toto	Toto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	across	across	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
21	around	around	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | bricks *= brick* |  |  |  |  | altogether, broken, indeed, sometimes *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | bricks *= brick* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **leave** | gerund | bricks *= brick* *not said here* | holes |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Theme |
| 4 | **jump** | past | Toto | holes |  |  |  | across *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Trajectory |
| 5 | **walk around** | past | Dorothy |  |  |  |  | around *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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