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title: Those creatures frightened me so badly that my heart is beating yet.” — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: Those creatures frightened me so badly that my heart is beating yet.” Who acts: creatures, heart. 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 of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 74

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Those creatures frightened me so badly that my heart is beating yet.”

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**Who acts:** creatures, heart · **What happens:** frighten, beat · **To what, where:** me

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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 (creatures, heart), 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:pg55:9:74
# text = Those creatures frightened me so badly that my heart is beating yet.”
1	Those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	beating	beat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
12	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **frighten** | past | that creatures | me |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |
| 2 | **beat** | present · progressive | my heart |  |  |  | yet |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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