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title: He was quite short and stout and had a big head, which was flat at t… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: He was quite short and stout and had a big head, which was flat at the top and supported by a thick neck full of wrinkles. Who acts: Scarecrow, big head. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings, sentence 10

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He was quite short and stout and had a big head, which was flat at the top and supported by a thick neck full of wrinkles.

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**Who acts:** Scarecrow, big head · **What happens:** be, have, support · **To what, where:** big head, top

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarecrow, big head), 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:pg55:24:10
# text = He was quite short and stout and had a big head, which was flat at the top and supported by a thick neck full of wrinkles.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	stout	stout	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	supported	support	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	wrinkles	wrinkle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Scarecrow |  |  |  |  | short *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Scarecrow *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | past | Scarecrow *not said here* | a big head |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | past | a big head |  |  | the top |  | flat *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **support** | participle | a big head *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by a thick neck | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=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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