--- title: So he painted my right eye, and as soon as it was finished I found m… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: So he painted my right eye, and as soon as it was finished I found myself looking at him and at everything around me with a great deal of curiosity, for this was my first glimpse of the world. Who acts: farmer, I, this. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IV. The Roa --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/6/32/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Wonderful Wizard of Oz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/) / [Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/6/) / 32 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 32 So he painted my right eye, and as soon as it was finished I found myself looking at him and at everything around me with a great deal of curiosity, for this was my first glimpse of the world. **Who acts:** farmer, I, this · **What happens:** paint, finish, find, look, be, deal · **To what, where:** right eye, same, myself, curiosity 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 (farmer, I, this), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg55:6:32 # text = So he painted my right eye, and as soon as it was finished I found myself looking at him and at everything around me with a great deal of curiosity, for this was my first glimpse of the world. 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 painted paint VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 9 as as ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 14 advmod _ _ 11 as as SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 finished finish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 17 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 16 obj _ _ 18 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 19 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 20 conj _ _ 24 around around ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nmod _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 deal deal NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 curiosity curiosity NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 33 for for ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 34 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 38 nsubj _ _ 35 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 36 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 37 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 38 amod _ _ 38 glimpse glimpse NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **paint** | past | farmer | my right eye | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent eye=Destination | | 2 | **finish** | past · passive | | same | | | | soon *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | | 3 | **find** | past | I | myself | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Topic | | 4 | **look** | gerund | I *not said here* | | | | | at farmer; with a great deal of curiosity | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | | 5 | **is** | past | this | | | | | for my first glimpse; of the world | tree rules | | 6 | **deal** | | | curiosity | | | | | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/6/31/) - next →: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/6/33/) - ↑ back to [Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/6/)