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title: Its head was a small sack stuffed with straw, with eyes, nose, and m… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: Its head was a small sack stuffed with straw, with eyes, nose, and mouth painted on it to represent a face. Who acts: head. 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 61

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Its head was a small sack stuffed with straw, with eyes, nose, and mouth painted on it to represent a face.

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**Who acts:** head · **What happens:** be, stuff, paint, represent · **To what, where:** small sack, mouth, Scarecrow, face

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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 (head), 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:pg55:5:61
# text = Its head was a small sack stuffed with straw, with eyes, nose, and mouth painted on it to represent a face.
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	stuffed	stuff	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
18	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	represent	represent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	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 | Scarecrow's head | a small sack and mouth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stuff** | participle |  | a small sack and mouth *not said here* |  |  |  | with straw; with eyes and nose | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with straw=Theme |
| 3 | **paint** | participle |  | mouth *not said here* |  | Scarecrow |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on it=Destination |
| 4 | **represent** | to-infinitive |  | a face |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot face=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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