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title: The sun had baked the plowed land into a gray mass, with little crac… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: The sun had baked the plowed land into a gray mass, with little cracks running through it. Who acts: little cracks. 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 9

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The sun had baked the plowed land into a gray mass, with little cracks running through it.

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**Who acts:** little cracks · **What happens:** bake, plow, run · **To what, where:** sun, gray mass

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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 (little cracks), 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:pg55:2:9
# text = The sun had baked the plowed land into a gray mass, with little cracks running through it.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	baked	bake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	plowed	plow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	gray	gray	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	mass	mass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	cracks	crack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
16	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	through	through	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bake** | past · perfect · passive |  | the sun |  | a gray mass |  | with little cracks | tree rules |
| 2 | **plow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **run** | gerund | little cracks *not said here* |  |  | sun |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through it=Trajectory |

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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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