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title: She was dressed in green silk gauze and wore upon her flowing green… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: She was dressed in green silk gauze and wore upon her flowing green locks a crown of jewels. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 108

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She was dressed in green silk gauze and wore upon her flowing green locks a crown of jewels.

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**What happens:** dress, wear, flow, crown · **To what, where:** Oz, green silk gauze, crown, jewels

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz. 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:pg55:13:108
# text = She was dressed in green silk gauze and wore upon her flowing green locks a crown of jewels.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	gauze	gauze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
12	flowing	flow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	amod	_	_
13	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	locks	lock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dress** | past · passive |  | Oz |  | green silk gauze |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **wear** | past |  | a crown of jewels |  |  |  | upon Oz's flowing green locks | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent crown=Theme |
| 3 | **flow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **crown** |  |  | jewels |  |  |  |  | nom crown «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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