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title: When all were safely down they picked up the Scarecrow, whose body w… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: When all were safely down they picked up the Scarecrow, whose body was quite flattened out, and patted his straw into shape again. Who acts: all, 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 
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 28

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When all were safely down they picked up the Scarecrow, whose body was quite flattened out, and patted his straw into shape again.

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**Who acts:** all, others · **What happens:** be, pick up, flatten out, pat · **To what, where:** Scarecrow, straw, shape

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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 (all, others), 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:pg55:22:28
# text = When all were safely down they picked up the Scarecrow, whose body was quite flattened out, and patted his straw into shape again.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	safely	safely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	picked	pick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Scarecrow	Scarecrow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
15	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	flattened	flatten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	patted	pat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	again	again	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | all |  |  |  |  | down, safely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **pick up** | past | others *= other* |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **flatten out** | past · passive |  | the Scarecrow |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **pat** | past | others *= other* *not said here* | Scarecrow's straw |  | shape | again |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent straw=Experiencer |

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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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