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title: Scattered around were many houses made entirely of china and painted… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: Scattered around were many houses made entirely of china and painted in the brightest colors. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 18

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Scattered around were many houses made entirely of china and painted in the brightest colors.

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**What happens:** be, make, paint · **To what, where:** Scattered many houses, brightest colors

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg55:22:18
# text = Scattered around were many houses made entirely of china and painted in the brightest colors.
1	Scattered	scatter	ADJ	VBN	_	5	amod	_	_
2	around	around	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	china	china	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	brightest	bright	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
15	colors	color	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | Scattered many houses |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | Scattered many houses *not said here* |  |  |  | of china; entirely *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **paint** | participle |  |  |  | the brightest colors |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent in color=Destination |

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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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