--- title: Many crows and other birds flew into the cornfield, but as soon as t… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: Many crows and other birds flew into the cornfield, but as soon as they saw me they flew away again, thinking I was a Munchkin; and this pleased me and made me feel that I was quite an important person. Who acts: Many crows, crows, I, me. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/6/49/) [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/) / 49 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 49 Many crows and other birds flew into the cornfield, but as soon as they saw me they flew away again, thinking I was a Munchkin; and this pleased me and made me feel that I was quite an important person. **Who acts:** Many crows, crows, I, me · **What happens:** fly, see, fly away, think, be, make · **To what, where:** cornfield, me, Munchkin, important person 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 (Many crows, crows, I, me), 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:pg55:6:49 # text = Many crows and other birds flew into the cornfield, but as soon as they saw me they flew away again, thinking I was a Munchkin; and this pleased me and made me feel that I was quite an important person. 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 crows crow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 6 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 into into ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 cornfield cornfield NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 12 as as ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 16 advmod _ _ 14 as as SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 17 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 20 away away ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 again again ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 thinking think VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 conj _ _ 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 Munchkin Munchkin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 31 nsubj _ _ 31 pleased pleased ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 32 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 35 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 37 that that SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 38 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 39 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 40 quite quite ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 41 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 important important ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fly** | past | Many crows and other birds | | | | | into the cornfield *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into cornfield=Result | | 2 | **see** | past | crows *= crow* | me | | | | soon *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | | 3 | **fly away** | past | crows *= crow* | | | | again | away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | crows *= crow* *not said here* | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | past | I | a Munchkin | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **make** | past | Many crows and other birds *not said here* | me | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **feel** | infinitive | me *not said here* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 8 | **is a** | past | I | a important person | | | | | tree rules | 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 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/6/48/) - next →: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/6/50/) - ↑ back to [Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/6/)