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title: In the center of the chair was an enormous Head, without a body to s… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: In the center of the chair was an enormous Head, without a body to support it or any arms or legs whatever. 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 59

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In the center of the chair was an enormous Head, without a body to support it or any arms or legs whatever.

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**What happens:** be, support · **To what, where:** enormous Head, center, chair

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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:pg55:13:59
# text = In the center of the chair was an enormous Head, without a body to support it or any arms or legs whatever.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	center	center	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	enormous	enormous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	without	without	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	support	support	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
23	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | a enormous Head and a body |  | the center of the chair |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **support** | to-infinitive |  | chair |  |  |  |  | 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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