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title: The ribbon around Toto’s neck had also lost its green color and was… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: The ribbon around Toto’s neck had also lost its green color and was as white as Dorothy’s dress. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 15

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The ribbon around Toto’s neck had also lost its green color and was as white as Dorothy’s dress.

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**What happens:** lose, be · **To what, where:** ribbon

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch. 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:pg55:14:15
# text = The ribbon around Toto’s neck had also lost its green color and was as white as Dorothy’s dress.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ribbon	ribbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	around	around	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	Toto	Toto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’s	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	also	also	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	color	color	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	as	as	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | past · perfect · passive |  | the ribbon around Toto's neck |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | as Dorothy's dress; white *property* | 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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