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title: Uncle Henry and Aunt Em had a big bed in one corner, and Dorothy a l… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: Uncle Henry and Aunt Em had a big bed in one corner, and Dorothy a little bed in another corner. Who acts: Uncle Henry, Dorothy. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter I. The Cyclone, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter I. The Cyclone, sentence 4

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Uncle Henry and Aunt Em had a big bed in one corner, and Dorothy a little bed in another corner.

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**Who acts:** Uncle Henry, Dorothy · **What happens:** have, bed · **To what, where:** big bed, one corner, corner

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter I. The Cyclone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Uncle Henry, Dorothy), 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:pg55:2:4
# text = Uncle Henry and Aunt Em had a big bed in one corner, and Dorothy a little bed in another corner.
1	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Henry	Henry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Aunt	Aunt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	Em	Em	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Uncle Henry and Aunt | a big bed |  | one corner |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Patient |
| 2 | **bed** |  | Dorothy |  |  | another corner |  |  | tree rules |

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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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