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title: “Everything is green here, while in the country of the Munchkins blu… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: “Everything is green here, while in the country of the Munchkins blue was the favorite color. Who acts: Everything. 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 16

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“Everything is green here, while in the country of the Munchkins blue was the favorite color.

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**Who acts:** Everything · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** country, green favorite color

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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: who acts (Everything), 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:pg55:12:16
# text = “Everything is green here, while in the country of the Munchkins blue was the favorite color.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
5	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
7	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Munchkins	Munchkin	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	favorite	favorite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	color	color	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Everything |  |  | here |  | green *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** *in a quote* |  | Everything *not said here* |  |  | the country of the Munchkins |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | past |  | the green favorite color |  |  |  |  | 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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