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title: Once was when she had made the Winkies her slaves, and set herself t… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: Once was when she had made the Winkies her slaves, and set herself to rule over their country. Who acts: Winkies, you. 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 77

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Once was when she had made the Winkies her slaves, and set herself to rule over their country.

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**Who acts:** Winkies, you · **What happens:** make, set, rule · **To what, where:** Witch, country

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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 (Winkies, you), 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:pg55:14:77
# text = Once was when she had made the Winkies her slaves, and set herself to rule over their country.
1	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	advmod	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
3	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Winkies	Winky	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	obl:agent	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	slaves	slave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	set	set	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	rule	rule	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
17	over	over	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · perfect · passive | the Winkies | Witch |  |  |  | once *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product |
| 2 | **set** | imperative | you *not said here* | Witch |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **rule** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | slaves's country |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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