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title: When she had finished her meal, and was about to go back to the road… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: When she had finished her meal, and was about to go back to the road of yellow brick, she was startled to hear a deep groan near by. Who acts: Dorothy. 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 o
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 11

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When she had finished her meal, and was about to go back to the road of yellow brick, she was startled to hear a deep groan near by.

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**Who acts:** Dorothy · **What happens:** finish, be, go back, startle, hear · **To what, where:** meal, Dorothy, deep groan

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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), 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:pg55:7:11
# text = When she had finished her meal, and was about to go back to the road of yellow brick, she was startled to hear a deep groan near by.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	about	about	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	back	back	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	brick	brick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	startled	startle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	parataxis	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	groan	groan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	near	near	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **finish** | past · perfect | Dorothy | Dorothy's meal |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector meal=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | about *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **go back** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to the road of yellow brick *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to road=Result |
| 4 | **startle** | past · passive |  | Dorothy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **hear** | to-infinitive |  | a deep groan |  |  |  | near *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer groan=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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