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title: When Dorothy presently asked him a question the Tin Woodman could no… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: When Dorothy presently asked him a question the Tin Woodman could not open his mouth, for his jaws were tightly rusted together. Who acts: Dorothy, Tin Woodman. 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 
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 82

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When Dorothy presently asked him a question the Tin Woodman could not open his mouth, for his jaws were tightly rusted together.

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**Who acts:** Dorothy, Tin Woodman · **What happens:** ask, not open, rust · **To what, where:** question, thing, mouth, jaws · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Dorothy, Tin Woodman), 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:pg55:8:82
# text = When Dorothy presently asked him a question the Tin Woodman could not open his mouth, for his jaws were tightly rusted together.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Tin	Tin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	jaws	jaw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
21	tightly	tightly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	rusted	rust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
23	together	together	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Dorothy | a question | thing |  |  | presently *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **open** | could | the Tin Woodman | thing's mouth |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme |
| 3 | **rust** | past · passive |  | thing's jaws |  |  |  | tightly, together *property* | tree rules |

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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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