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title: The men, Dorothy thought, were about as old as Uncle Henry, for two… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: The men, Dorothy thought, were about as old as Uncle Henry, for two of them had beards. Who acts: men, two. 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 18

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The men, Dorothy thought, were about as old as Uncle Henry, for two of them had beards.

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**Who acts:** men, two · **What happens:** think, be, have · **To what, where:** beards · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (men, two), 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:pg55:3:18
# text = The men, Dorothy thought, were about as old as Uncle Henry, for two of them had beards.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	as	as	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	ccomp	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Henry	Henry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	_
19	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
20	beards	beard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the men |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | as Uncle Henry; about, old *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | past | two of men | beards |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=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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