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title: So Dorothy took a needle and thread, and as fast as Oz cut the strip… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: So Dorothy took a needle and thread, and as fast as Oz cut the strips of silk into proper shape the girl sewed them neatly together. Who acts: Dorothy, Oz, girl. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched, sentence 33

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So Dorothy took a needle and thread, and as fast as Oz cut the strips of silk into proper shape the girl sewed them neatly together.

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**Who acts:** Dorothy, Oz, girl · **What happens:** take, cut, sew · **To what, where:** needle, strips, proper shape

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dorothy, Oz, girl), 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:pg55:19:33
# text = So Dorothy took a needle and thread, and as fast as Oz cut the strips of silk into proper shape the girl sewed them neatly together.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	needle	needle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	thread	thread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	as	as	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	Oz	Oz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	strips	strip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	sewed	sew	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	neatly	neatly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	together	together	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Dorothy | a needle and thread |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent needle=Theme |
| 2 | **cut** | past | Oz | the strips of silk |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strip=Product |
| 3 | **sew** | past | the girl | strips *= strip* |  | proper shape |  | together *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent they=Material into shape=Product |

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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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