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title: The cyclone had set the house down very gently—for a cyclone—in the… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: The cyclone had set the house down very gently—for a cyclone—in the midst of a country of marvelous beauty. 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 6

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The cyclone had set the house down very gently—for a cyclone—in the midst of a country of marvelous beauty.

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**What happens:** set down · **To what, where:** cyclone

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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: 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:pg55:3:6
# text = The cyclone had set the house down very gently—for a cyclone—in the midst of a country of marvelous beauty.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cyclone	cyclone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	down	down	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	cyclone	cyclone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	marvelous	marvelous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set down** | past · perfect · passive |  | the cyclone |  |  |  | gently *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme house=Destination |

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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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