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title: He fastened it together with wooden pegs and made the four wheels ou… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: He fastened it together with wooden pegs and made the four wheels out of short pieces of a big tree trunk. Who acts: Lion. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 48

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He fastened it together with wooden pegs and made the four wheels out of short pieces of a big tree trunk.

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**Who acts:** Lion · **What happens:** fasten, make · **To what, where:** truck, four wheels, short pieces

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lion), 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:pg55:11:48
# text = He fastened it together with wooden pegs and made the four wheels out of short pieces of a big tree trunk.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	together	together	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	pegs	peg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fasten** | past | Lion | truck |  |  |  | with wooden pegs; together *property* | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Patient with peg=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **make** | past | Lion *not said here* | the four wheels |  | short pieces of a big tree trunk |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wheel=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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