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title: When Dorothy awoke the sun was shining through the trees and Toto ha… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: When Dorothy awoke the sun was shining through the trees and Toto had long been out chasing birds around him and squirrels. Who acts: Dorothy, sun, Toto. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 1

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When Dorothy awoke the sun was shining through the trees and Toto had long been out chasing birds around him and squirrels.

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**Who acts:** Dorothy, sun, Toto · **What happens:** awake, shine, chase · **To what, where:** trees, birds

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dorothy, sun, Toto), 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:pg55:7:1
# text = When Dorothy awoke the sun was shining through the trees and Toto had long been out chasing birds around him and squirrels.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	awoke	awake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
8	through	through	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	Toto	Toto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
14	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
15	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	aux	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	chasing	chase	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
18	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	around	around	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	squirrels	squirrel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **awake** | past | Dorothy |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **shine** | past · progressive | the sun |  |  | the trees |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through tree=Location |
| 3 | **chase** | past · perfect · progressive | Toto | birds and squirrels |  |  |  | around sun; long *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bird=Theme around he=Trajectory |

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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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