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title: The people were all dressed in clothing of a lovely emerald-green co… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: The people were all dressed in clothing of a lovely emerald-green color and wore peaked hats like those of the Munchkins. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 13

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The people were all dressed in clothing of a lovely emerald-green color and wore peaked hats like those of the Munchkins.

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**What happens:** dress, wear, peak · **To what, where:** people, clothing, peaked hats

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg55:12:13
# text = The people were all dressed in clothing of a lovely emerald-green color and wore peaked hats like those of the Munchkins.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	clothing	clothing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
10	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
11	emerald	emerald	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	color	color	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	peaked	peak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	hats	hat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	18	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Munchkins	munchkin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dress** | past · passive |  | the people |  | clothing of a lovely green color |  | all *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **wear** | past |  | peaked hats |  |  |  | like those | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hat=Theme |
| 3 | **peak** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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