--- title: These sounds made the little girl’s heart beat fast, for she did not… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: These sounds made the little girl’s heart beat fast, for she did not know what made them; but Toto knew, and he walked close to Dorothy’s side, and did not even bark in return. Who acts: sounds, heart, Toto. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/8/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Wonderful Wizard of Oz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/) / [Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/8/) / 5 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 5 These sounds made the little girl’s heart beat fast, for she did not know what made them; but Toto knew, and he walked close to Dorothy’s side, and did not even bark in return. **Who acts:** sounds, heart, Toto · **What happens:** make, beat, not know, know, walk, not bark · **To what, where:** sounds, return · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (sounds, heart, Toto), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg55:8:5 # text = These sounds made the little girl’s heart beat fast, for she did not know what made them; but Toto knew, and he walked close to Dorothy’s side, and did not even bark in return. 1 These this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 2 det _ _ 2 sounds sound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ’s 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 beat beat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 10 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 for for SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 13 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 17 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 18 nsubj _ _ 18 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 ccomp _ _ 19 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 Toto Toto PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 28 close close ADV RB Degree=Pos 27 advmod _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 Dorothy Dorothy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ’s 's PART POS _ 30 case _ _ 32 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 35 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 36 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 38 advmod _ _ 37 even even ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 bark bark VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 advcl _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 return return NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | this sounds | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 2 | **beat** | present | the little girl's heart | | | | | fast *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | heart | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **make** | past | | sounds *= sound* | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material they=Product | | 5 | **know** | past | Toto | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **walk** | past | Toto | | | | | close *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **not** **bark** | past · do-support | Toto *not said here* | | | return | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/8/4/) - next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/8/6/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/8/)