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title: First there was a strip of light green silk, then a strip of dark gr… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: First there was a strip of light green silk, then a strip of dark green and then a strip of emerald green; for Oz had a fancy to make the balloon in different shades of the color about them. Who acts: strip, Oz. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVII. How the Ballo
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched, sentence 34

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First there was a strip of light green silk, then a strip of dark green and then a strip of emerald green; for Oz had a fancy to make the balloon in different shades of the color about them.

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**Who acts:** strip, Oz · **What happens:** be, have, make, shade · **To what, where:** fancy, balloon, different shades, color

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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 (strip, Oz), 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:pg55:19:34
# text = First there was a strip of light green silk, then a strip of dark green and then a strip of emerald green; for Oz had a fancy to make the balloon in different shades of the color about them.
1	First	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	was	be	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	strip	strip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	strip	strip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	strip	strip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	emerald	emerald	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	green	green	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Oz	Oz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	fancy	fancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	balloon	balloon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	shades	shade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	color	color	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
40	about	about	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a strip of light green silk and a strip of dark green and a strip of emerald green |  |  | there |  | first *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | Oz | a fancy |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fancy=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | Oz *not said here* | the balloon |  | different shades of the color about strips |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset balloon=Product |
| 4 | **shade** |  |  | the color about strips |  |  |  |  | nom shade «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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