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title: The Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman stood up in a corner and kept quie… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: The Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman stood up in a corner and kept quiet all night, although of course they could not sleep. Who acts: Scarecrow, doors. 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
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 69

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The Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman stood up in a corner and kept quiet all night, although of course they could not sleep.

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**Who acts:** Scarecrow, doors · **What happens:** stand up, keep, not sleep · **To what, where:** corner

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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 (Scarecrow, doors), 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:pg55:12:69
# text = The Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman stood up in a corner and kept quiet all night, although of course they could not sleep.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Tin	Tin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADV	24	advmod	_	_
20	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	fixed	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand up** | past | the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman |  |  | a corner |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location |
| 2 | **keep** | past | the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman *not said here* |  |  |  | night | quiet *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **sleep** | could | doors *= door* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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