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title: At once the cap changed to a slate, on which was written in big, whi… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: At once the cap changed to a slate, on which was written in big, white chalk marks: 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 96

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At once the cap changed to a slate, on which was written in big, white chalk marks:

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**What happens:** change, write · **To what, where:** cap, big white chalk marks

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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:pg55:3:96
# text = At once the cap changed to a slate, on which was written in big, white chalk marks:
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	slate	slate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obl	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
15	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	chalk	chalk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	marks	mark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | participle |  | the cap *not said here* |  |  |  | to a slate *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Agent to slate=Result |
| 2 | **write** | past · passive |  |  |  | big white chalk marks |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: on which=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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