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title: Then, going to a chest of drawers, he took out a pretty heart, made… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, going to a chest of drawers, he took out a pretty heart, made entirely of silk and stuffed with sawdust. Who acts: Woodman, pretty heart. 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 
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug, sentence 36

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Then, going to a chest of drawers, he took out a pretty heart, made entirely of silk and stuffed with sawdust.

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**Who acts:** Woodman, pretty heart · **What happens:** go, take out, make, stuff · **To what, where:** chest, pretty heart, silk

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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 (Woodman, pretty heart), 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:pg55:18:36
# text = Then, going to a chest of drawers, he took out a pretty heart, made entirely of silk and stuffed with sawdust.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	drawers	drawer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
18	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	stuffed	stuff	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	sawdust	sawdust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | gerund | Woodman *not said here* |  |  | a chest of drawers |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to chest=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **take out** | past | Woodman | a pretty heart |  |  | then |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | participle | a pretty heart *not said here* | silk |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset silk=Product |
| 4 | **stuff** | participle | a pretty heart *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with sawdust | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with sawdust=Theme |

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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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