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title: There was, in her cupboard, a Golden Cap, with a circle of diamonds… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: There was, in her cupboard, a Golden Cap, with a circle of diamonds and rubies running round it. Who acts: cupboard, rubies. 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 72

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There was, in her cupboard, a Golden Cap, with a circle of diamonds and rubies running round it.

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**Who acts:** cupboard, rubies · **What happens:** be, run · **To what, where:** cupboard

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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: who acts (cupboard, rubies), 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:pg55:14:72
# text = There was, in her cupboard, a Golden Cap, with a circle of diamonds and rubies running round it.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Cap	Cap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	circle	circle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	rubies	ruby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
20	round	round	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	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 | Witch's cupboard |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **run** | gerund | rubies *not said here* |  |  | cupboard |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round it=Trajectory |

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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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