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title: But whenever any of us are taken away our joints at once stiffen, an… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: But whenever any of us are taken away our joints at once stiffen, and we can only stand straight and look pretty. Who acts: we. 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 72

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But whenever any of us are taken away our joints at once stiffen, and we can only stand straight and look pretty.

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** take away, stiffen, stand, look · **To what, where:** any

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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 (we), 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:pg55:22:72
# text = But whenever any of us are taken away our joints at once stiffen, and we can only stand straight and look pretty.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	whenever	whenever	SCONJ	WRB	_	7	mark	_	_
3	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	away	away	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	joints	joint	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	13	obl	_	_
13	stiffen	stiffen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	only	only	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
20	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
23	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take away** | present · passive |  | any |  |  |  | away *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **stiffen** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **stand** | can | we |  |  |  |  | straight *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **look** | infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  | pretty *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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