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title: The Clown put his hands in his pockets, and after puffing out his ch… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: The Clown put his hands in his pockets, and after puffing out his cheeks and nodding his head at them saucily, he said: Who acts: Clown, Joker. 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 clau
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 58

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The Clown put his hands in his pockets, and after puffing out his cheeks and nodding his head at them saucily, he said:

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**Who acts:** Clown, Joker · **What happens:** put, puff out, nod, say · **To what, where:** hands, pockets, cheeks, head · **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 (Clown, Joker), 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:pg55:22:58
# text = The Clown put his hands in his pockets, and after puffing out his cheeks and nodding his head at them saucily, he said:
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Clown	clown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	pockets	pocket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
11	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	puffing	puff	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	nodding	nod	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
22	saucily	saucily	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | the Clown | Joker's hands |  | Joker's pockets |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in pocket=Destination |
| 2 | **puff out** | gerund | Joker *not said here* | Joker's cheeks |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cheek=Source |
| 3 | **nod** | gerund | Joker *not said here* | Joker's head |  |  |  | at clowns *= clown*; saucily *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Joker |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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