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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug, sentence 17

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Having shaken them together thoroughly, he filled the top of the Scarecrow’s head with the mixture and stuffed the rest of the space with straw, to hold it in place.

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**Who acts:** Wizard · **What happens:** have, shake, fill, stuff, hold · **To what, where:** needles, top, rest, place

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wizard), 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:pg55:18:17
# text = Having shaken them together thoroughly, he filled the top of the Scarecrow’s head with the mixture and stuffed the rest of the space with straw, to hold it in place.
1	Having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
2	shaken	shake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	xcomp	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	together	together	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	thoroughly	thoroughly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Scarecrow	Scarecrow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	mixture	mixture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	stuffed	stuff	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund | Wizard *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **shake** | participle | Wizard *not said here* | needles *= needle* |  |  |  | thoroughly, together *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 3 | **fill** | past | Wizard | the top of the Scarecrow's head |  |  |  | with the mixture | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent top=Patient with mixture=Instrument |
| 4 | **stuff** | past | Wizard *not said here* | the rest of the space with straw |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent rest=Theme |
| 5 | **hold** | to-infinitive | Wizard *not said here* | rest |  | place |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in place=Location |

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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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