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title: Indeed, a jolly little clown came walking toward them, and Dorothy c… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: Indeed, a jolly little clown came walking toward them, and Dorothy could see that in spite of his pretty clothes of red and yellow and green he was completely covered with cracks, running every which way and showing plainly that he had been mended in many places. Who acts: jolly little clown, Doroth
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 57

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Indeed, a jolly little clown came walking toward them, and Dorothy could see that in spite of his pretty clothes of red and yellow and green he was completely covered with cracks, running every which way and showing plainly that he had been mended in many places.

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**Who acts:** jolly little clown, Dorothy · **What happens:** come, walk, see, cover, run, show · **To what, where:** Joker, way, many places, pretty clothes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (jolly little clown, Dorothy), 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:pg55:22:57
# text = Indeed, a jolly little clown came walking toward them, and Dorothy could see that in spite of his pretty clothes of red and yellow and green he was completely covered with cracks, running every which way and showing plainly that he had been mended in many places.
1	Indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	jolly	jolly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	clown	clown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
9	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	18	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
31	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	ccomp	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	cracks	crack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	advcl	_	_
37	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	39	det	_	_
38	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	39	det	_	_
39	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	showing	show	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	conj	_	_
42	plainly	plainly	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
43	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
44	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj:pass	_	_
45	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
46	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	47	aux:pass	_	_
47	mended	mend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	advcl	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | a jolly little clown |  |  |  |  | indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **walk** | gerund | a jolly little clown *not said here* |  |  |  |  | toward clowns *= clown* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward they=Trajectory |
| 3 | **see** | could | Dorothy |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **cover** | past · passive |  | Joker |  |  |  | with cracks; in spite of Joker's pretty clothes of red; completely *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in spite=Theme |
| 5 | **run** | gerund |  | every way |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory |
| 6 | **show** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | plainly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **mend** | past · perfect · passive |  | Joker |  | many places |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **spite** |  |  | Joker's pretty clothes of red |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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