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title: Of course they took pains not to light on his head and get the pins… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: Of course they took pains not to light on his head and get the pins in their feet. Who acts: others. 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 27

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Of course they took pains not to light on his head and get the pins in their feet.

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**Who acts:** others · **What happens:** take, not light, get · **To what, where:** pains, head, pins, feet

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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 (others), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg55:1472`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg55:22:27
# text = Of course they took pains not to light on his head and get the pins in their feet.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADV	4	advmod	_	_
2	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	fixed	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	pains	pain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	light	light	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	pins	pin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | others *= other* | pains |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent pain=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **not** **light** | to-infinitive | others *= other* *not said here* |  |  | Scarecrow's head |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **get** | infinitive | others *= other* *not said here* | the pins |  | others's feet |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pin=Stimulus |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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