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title: It took three days to sew all the strips together, but when it was f… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: It took three days to sew all the strips together, but when it was finished they had a big bag of green silk more than twenty feet long. Who acts: It, strips. 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 pra
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched, sentence 35

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It took three days to sew all the strips together, but when it was finished they had a big bag of green silk more than twenty feet long.

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**Who acts:** It, strips · **What happens:** take, sew, finish, have · **To what, where:** strips, silk, big bag

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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 (It, strips), 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:pg55:19:35
# text = It took three days to sew all the strips together, but when it was finished they had a big bag of green silk more than twenty feet long.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	sew	sew	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	strips	strip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	together	together	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	29	advmod	_	_
26	than	than	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
29	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | It |  |  |  | day |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sew** | to-infinitive |  | all strips |  |  |  | together *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strip=Product |
| 3 | **finish** | past · passive |  | silk |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
| 4 | **have** | past | strips *= strip* | a big bag of green silk |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=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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