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title: It was the sweetest little room in the world, with a soft comfortabl… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: It was the sweetest little room in the world, with a soft comfortable bed that had sheets of green silk and a green velvet counterpane. Who acts: room, soft comfortable bed. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, with its dependency tree an
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 29

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It was the sweetest little room in the world, with a soft comfortable bed that had sheets of green silk and a green velvet counterpane.

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**Who acts:** room, soft comfortable bed · **What happens:** be, have · **To what, where:** sweetest little room, world, sheets

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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: who acts (room, soft comfortable bed), 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:pg55:13:29
# text = It was the sweetest little room in the world, with a soft comfortable bed that had sheets of green silk and a green velvet counterpane.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	sweetest	sweet	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	sheets	sheet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	velvet	velvet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	counterpane	counterpane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | room | the sweetest little room and a soft comfortable bed |  | the world |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | a soft comfortable bed | sheets of green silk and a green velvet counterpane |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheet=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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