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title: It was hard work, although he was so big; but by and by they were dr… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: It was hard work, although he was so big; but by and by they were drawn out of the current, and then Dorothy took the Tin Woodman’s long pole and helped push the raft to the land. Who acts: shore, use, Dorothy. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Pop
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 29

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It was hard work, although he was so big; but by and by they were drawn out of the current, and then Dorothy took the Tin Woodman’s long pole and helped push the raft to the land.

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**Who acts:** shore, use, Dorothy · **What happens:** be, draw out, take, help, push · **To what, where:** hard work, Scarecrow, current, long pole, raft, land

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shore, use, 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:pg55:10:29
# text = It was hard work, although he was so big; but by and by they were drawn out of the current, and then Dorothy took the Tin Woodman’s long pole and helped push the raft to the land.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	current	current	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
26	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	Tin	Tin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	’s	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	pole	pole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
36	push	push	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	raft	raft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | shore | hard work |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | use |  |  |  |  | big *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **draw out** | past · passive |  | Scarecrow |  | the current |  |  | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary current=Result |
| 4 | **take** | past | Dorothy | the Tin Woodman's long pole |  |  | then |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pole=Theme |
| 5 | **help** | past | Dorothy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **push** | infinitive | Dorothy *not said here* | the raft |  | the land |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent raft=Theme to land=Trajectory |

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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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