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title: The houses of the Munchkins were odd-looking dwellings, for each was… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: The houses of the Munchkins were odd-looking dwellings, for each was round, with a big dome for a roof. Who acts: houses, each. 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 30

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The houses of the Munchkins were odd-looking dwellings, for each was round, with a big dome for a roof.

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**Who acts:** houses, each · **What happens:** look, be · **To what, where:** odd looking dwellings

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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 (houses, each), 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:pg55:5:30
# text = The houses of the Munchkins were odd-looking dwellings, for each was round, with a big dome for a roof.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Munchkins	munchkin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	odd	odd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	amod	_	_
10	dwellings	dwelling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	dome	dome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the houses of the Munchkins | odd looking dwellings |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | each |  |  |  |  | with a big dome for a roof; round *property* | tree rules |

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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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