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title: “After the crows had gone I thought this over, and decided I would t… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: “After the crows had gone I thought this over, and decided I would try hard to get some brains. Who acts: crows. 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 57

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“After the crows had gone I thought this over, and decided I would try hard to get some brains.

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**Who acts:** crows · **What happens:** go, think over, decide, try, get · **To what, where:** this, brains

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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 (crows), 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:pg55:6:57
# text = “After the crows had gone I thought this over, and decided I would try hard to get some brains.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	crows	crow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	obj	_	_
10	over	over	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	decided	decide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
17	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
20	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	brains	brain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | past · perfect | the crows |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **think over** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past | crows *= crow* | this |  |  |  | over *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot this=Theme |
| 3 | **decide** *in a quote* | past | crows *= crow* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **try** *not said to happen, in a quote* | would | crows *= crow* |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **get** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | crows *= crow* *not said here* | some brains |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brain=Stimulus |

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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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