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title: They turned and walked through the forest a few steps, when Dorothy… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: They turned and walked through the forest a few steps, when Dorothy discovered something shining in a ray of sunshine that fell between the trees. Who acts: ears, Dorothy, sunshine. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, with its depend
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 15

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They turned and walked through the forest a few steps, when Dorothy discovered something shining in a ray of sunshine that fell between the trees.

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**Who acts:** ears, Dorothy, sunshine · **What happens:** turn, walk, discover, shine, fall, ray · **To what, where:** few steps, forest, something, ray, trees, sunshine

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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 (ears, Dorothy, sunshine), 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:pg55:7:15
# text = They turned and walked through the forest a few steps, when Dorothy discovered something shining in a ray of sunshine that fell between the trees.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
13	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	discovered	discover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	14	obj	_	_
16	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	ray	ray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	between	between	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | ears *= ear* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **walk** | past | ears *= ear* *not said here* | a few steps |  | the forest |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent step=Theme through forest=Trajectory |
| 3 | **discover** | past | Dorothy | something |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic |
| 4 | **shine** | gerund |  |  |  | a ray of sunshine |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ray=Location |
| 5 | **fall** | past | sunshine |  |  | the trees |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between tree=Location |
| 6 | **ray** |  |  | sunshine |  |  |  |  | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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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