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title: “When they scratched against the tin it made a cold shiver run down… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: “When they scratched against the tin it made a cold shiver run down my back. Who acts: claws, tin, cold shiver. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 35

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“When they scratched against the tin it made a cold shiver run down my back.

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**Who acts:** claws, tin, cold shiver · **What happens:** scratch, make, run down · **To what, where:** tin, cold shiver, back

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (claws, tin, cold shiver), 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:pg55:8:35
# text = “When they scratched against the tin it made a cold shiver run down my back.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	scratched	scratch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	against	against	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	shiver	shiver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
14	down	down	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scratch** *in a quote* | past | claws *= claw* |  |  | the tin |  |  | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent against tin=Location |
| 2 | **make** *in a quote* | past | tin | a cold shiver |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **run down** *in a quote* | infinitive | a cold shiver *not said here* | my back |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme back=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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