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title: This pleased Dorothy, who had eaten nothing but nuts all day, and sh… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: This pleased Dorothy, who had eaten nothing but nuts all day, and she made a hearty meal of the ripe fruit. Who acts: pleased Dorothy, Woodman. 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 
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 84

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This pleased Dorothy, who had eaten nothing but nuts all day, and she made a hearty meal of the ripe fruit.

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**Who acts:** pleased Dorothy, Woodman · **What happens:** eat, make · **To what, where:** nothing, hearty meal

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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 (pleased Dorothy, 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:pg55:9:84
# text = This pleased Dorothy, who had eaten nothing but nuts all day, and she made a hearty meal of the ripe fruit.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	acl	_	_
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	obj	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	hearty	hearty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	ripe	ripe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past · perfect | pleased Dorothy | nothing |  |  | day |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | past | Woodman | a hearty meal of the ripe fruit |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Product |

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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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