--- title: They had just started to cross this queer bridge when a sharp growl… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: They had just started to cross this queer bridge when a sharp growl made them all look up, and to their horror they saw running toward them two great beasts with bodies like bears and heads like tigers. Who acts: legs, sharp growl, two great beasts. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. F --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/9/59/) [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 VII. The Journey to the Great Oz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/9/) / 59 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 59 They had just started to cross this queer bridge when a sharp growl made them all look up, and to their horror they saw running toward them two great beasts with bodies like bears and heads like tigers. **Who acts:** legs, sharp growl, two great beasts · **What happens:** start, cross, make, look up, see, run · **To what, where:** queer bridge, legs, two great beasts 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 (legs, sharp growl, two great beasts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg55:526`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg55:9:59 # text = They had just started to cross this queer bridge when a sharp growl made them all look up, and to their horror they saw running toward them two great beasts with bodies like bears and heads like tigers. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 just just ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 started start VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 cross cross VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 9 det _ _ 8 queer queer ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 bridge bridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 growl growl NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 15 det _ _ 17 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 18 up up ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 horror horror NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 26 running run VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 xcomp _ _ 27 toward toward ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ _ 29 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 30 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 beasts beast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 bodies body NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nmod _ _ 34 like like ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 bears bear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nmod _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 conj _ _ 38 like like ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 tigers tiger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nmod _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **start** | past · perfect | legs *= leg* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **cross** | to-infinitive | legs *= leg* *not said here* | this queer bridge | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridge=Patient | | 3 | **make** | past | a sharp growl | legs *= leg* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **look up** | infinitive | legs *= leg* *not said here* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **see** | past | legs *= leg* | two great beasts | | | | to legs's horror; with bodies like bears and heads like tigers | tree rules | | 6 | **run** | gerund | two great beasts *not said here* | | | | | toward legs *= leg* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward they=Trajectory | 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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/9/58/) - next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/9/60/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/9/)