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title: There were many people—men, women, and children—walking about, and t… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: There were many people—men, women, and children—walking about, and these were all dressed in green clothes and had greenish skins. Who acts: many people. 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 
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 4

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There were many people—men, women, and children—walking about, and these were all dressed in green clothes and had greenish skins.

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**Who acts:** many people · **What happens:** be, walk, dress, have · **To what, where:** these, green clothes, greenish skins

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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 (many people), 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:pg55:13:4
# text = There were many people—men, women, and children—walking about, and these were all dressed in green clothes and had greenish skins.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	conj	_	_
14	about	about	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
19	all	all	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	20	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
26	greenish	greenish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	skins	skin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | many people and men and women |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **walk** | gerund | many people and men and women *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **dress** | past · passive |  | these |  | green clothes |  | all *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **have** | past |  | greenish skins |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=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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