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title: There was another Munchkin with him, and the first thing I heard was… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: There was another Munchkin with him, and the first thing I heard was the farmer saying, ‘How do you like those ears?’ Who acts: I, first thing, you. 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 ev
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 27

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There was another Munchkin with him, and the first thing I heard was the farmer saying, ‘How do you like those ears?’

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**Who acts:** I, first thing, you · **What happens:** hear, be, like · **To what, where:** first thing, ears · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I, first thing, you), 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:pg55:6:27
# text = There was another Munchkin with him, and the first thing I heard was the farmer saying, ‘How do you like those ears?’
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
3	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	Munchkin	Munchkin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	amod	_	_
11	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:outer	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
21	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
24	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | I | the first thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
| 2 | **be** *speech: assert* | past | the first thing |  |  |  |  | say *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **like** | present · do-support | you | that ears |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot ear=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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