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title: And, strangest of all, these people were all made of china, even to… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: And, strangest of all, these people were all made of china, even to their clothes, and were so small that the tallest of them was no higher than Dorothy’s knee. Who acts: tallest. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, with its dependency t
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 23

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And, strangest of all, these people were all made of china, even to their clothes, and were so small that the tallest of them was no higher than Dorothy’s knee.

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**Who acts:** tallest · **What happens:** make, be, not be · **To what, where:** people

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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: who acts (tallest), 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:pg55:22:23
# text = And, strangest of all, these people were all made of china, even to their clothes, and were so small that the tallest of them was no higher than Dorothy’s knee.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	strangest	strange	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
10	all	all	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	china	china	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	even	even	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	tallest	tall	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	31	nsubj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nmod	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	no	no	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	parataxis	_	_
32	than	than	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	’s	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	knee	knee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · passive |  | this people |  |  |  | of china and people's clothes; all *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | small *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past | the tallest of people |  |  |  |  | than Dorothy's knee; high *property* | 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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