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title: Evidently the Munchkins were good farmers and able to raise large cr… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: Evidently the Munchkins were good farmers and able to raise large crops. Who acts: Munchkins. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 28

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Evidently the Munchkins were good farmers and able to raise large crops.

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**Who acts:** Munchkins · **What happens:** be, raise · **To what, where:** good farmers, large crops

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Munchkins), 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:pg55:5:28
# text = Evidently the Munchkins were good farmers and able to raise large crops.
1	Evidently	evidently	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Munchkins	munchkin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	farmers	farmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	raise	raise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	crops	crop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the Munchkins | good farmers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the Munchkins *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **raise** | to-infinitive | the Munchkins *not said here* | large crops |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crop=Theme |

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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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