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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug, sentence 51

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He went to a cupboard and reaching up to a high shelf took down a square green bottle, the contents of which he poured into a green-gold dish, beautifully carved.

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**Who acts:** Oz., reaching · **What happens:** go, reach up, take down, pour, carve · **To what, where:** cupboard, square green bottle, green gold dish

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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 (Oz., reaching), 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:pg55:18:51
# text = He went to a cupboard and reaching up to a high shelf took down a square green bottle, the contents of which he poured into a green-gold dish, beautifully carved.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
7	reaching	reach	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	csubj	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	shelf	shelf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	down	down	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	square	square	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	contents	contents	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	18	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obl	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	poured	pour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
28	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	carved	carve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Oz. |  |  | a cupboard |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to cupboard=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **reach up** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to a high shelf | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **take down** | past | reaching | a square green bottle and the contents |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=Theme |
| 4 | **pour** | past | Oz. |  |  | a green gold dish |  | of the contents | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent of which=Initial\_Location into dish=Destination |
| 5 | **carve** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | beautifully *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: 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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