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title: “Why are those needles and pins sticking out of your head?” asked th… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: “Why are those needles and pins sticking out of your head?” asked the Tin Woodman. Who acts: needles. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug, sentence 25

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“Why are those needles and pins sticking out of your head?” asked the Tin Woodman.

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**Who acts:** needles · **What happens:** be, stick out, ask · **To what, where:** needles, head, Tin Woodman · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (needles), 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:pg55:18:25
# text = “Why are those needles and pins sticking out of your head?” asked the Tin Woodman.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	needles	needle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	pins	pin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	sticking	stick	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
15	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Tin	Tin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | that needles and pins |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stick out** *in a quote* | gerund | that needles and pins *not said here* | your head |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past |  |  | the Tin Woodman |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent woodman=Recipient |

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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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