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title: So he kept a good distance away from the flames, and only came near… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: So he kept a good distance away from the flames, and only came near to cover Dorothy with dry leaves when she lay down to sleep. Who acts: Lion, Dorothy. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 14

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So he kept a good distance away from the flames, and only came near to cover Dorothy with dry leaves when she lay down to sleep.

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**Who acts:** Lion, Dorothy · **What happens:** keep, come, cover, lie down, sleep · **To what, where:** good distance, flames, Dorothy

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lion, 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:pg55:9:14
# text = So he kept a good distance away from the flames, and only came near to cover Dorothy with dry leaves when she lay down to sleep.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	near	near	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	cover	cover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
18	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
22	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
25	down	down	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | Lion | a good distance |  | the flames |  | away *property* | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer distance=Beneficiary from flame=Eventuality |
| 2 | **come** | past | Lion *not said here* |  |  |  |  | near *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **cover** | to-infinitive | Lion *not said here* |  | Dorothy |  |  | with dry leaves | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent dorothy=Destination with leaf=Theme |
| 4 | **lie down** | past | Dorothy |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | Dorothy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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