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title: The Quadlings themselves, who were short and fat and looked chubby a… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: The Quadlings themselves, who were short and fat and looked chubby and good-natured, were dressed all in red, which showed bright against the green grass and the yellowing grain. Who acts: Quadlings. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadli
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings, sentence 33

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The Quadlings themselves, who were short and fat and looked chubby and good-natured, were dressed all in red, which showed bright against the green grass and the yellowing grain.

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**Who acts:** Quadlings · **What happens:** be, look, dress, show, yellow · **To what, where:** Quadlings, red

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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 (Quadlings), 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:pg55:24:33
# text = The Quadlings themselves, who were short and fat and looked chubby and good-natured, were dressed all in red, which showed bright against the green grass and the yellowing grain.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Quadlings	Quadling	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	chubby	chubby	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	natured	natured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
26	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
27	against	against	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	yellowing	yellow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	amod	_	_
34	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Quadlings  Quadlings |  |  |  |  | short *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the Quadlings  Quadlings *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | past | the Quadlings  Quadlings *not said here* |  |  |  |  | chubby *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **dress** | past · passive |  | the Quadlings  Quadlings |  | red |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **show** | past |  |  |  |  |  | bright *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **yellow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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