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title: Over it were sprinkled little stars that glistened in the sun like d… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: Over it were sprinkled little stars that glistened in the sun like diamonds. Who acts: little stars. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 16

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Over it were sprinkled little stars that glistened in the sun like diamonds.

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**Who acts:** little stars · **What happens:** sprinkle, glisten · **To what, where:** gown, sun

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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 (little stars), 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:pg55:3:16
# text = Over it were sprinkled little stars that glistened in the sun like diamonds.
1	Over	over	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	glistened	glisten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sprinkle** | past · passive |  | gown |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **glisten** | participle | little stars |  |  | the sun |  | like diamonds | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sun=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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