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title: The hats of the men were blue; the little woman’s hat was white, and… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: The hats of the men were blue; the little woman’s hat was white, and she wore a white gown that hung in pleats from her shoulders. Who acts: hats, hat, woman, white gown. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, with its dependency tree
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 15

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The hats of the men were blue; the little woman’s hat was white, and she wore a white gown that hung in pleats from her shoulders.

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**Who acts:** hats, hat, woman, white gown · **What happens:** be, wear, hang · **To what, where:** white gown, pleats

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hats, hat, woman, white gown), 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:pg55:3:15
# text = The hats of the men were blue; the little woman’s hat was white, and she wore a white gown that hung in pleats from her shoulders.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hats	hat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’s	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	gown	gown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	pleats	pleat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the hats of the men |  |  |  |  | blue *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | the little woman's hat |  |  |  |  | white *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **wear** | past | woman | a white gown |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gown=Theme |
| 4 | **hang** | past | a white gown |  |  | pleats |  | from woman's shoulders | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in pleat=Location |

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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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