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title: An old, pointed blue hat, that had belonged to some Munchkin, was pe… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: An old, pointed blue hat, that had belonged to some Munchkin, was perched on his head, and the rest of the figure was a blue suit of clothes, worn and faded, which had also been stuffed with straw. Who acts: pointed blue hat, rest. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 62

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An old, pointed blue hat, that had belonged to some Munchkin, was perched on his head, and the rest of the figure was a blue suit of clothes, worn and faded, which had also been stuffed with straw.

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**Who acts:** pointed blue hat, rest · **What happens:** point, belong, perch, be, wear, fade · **To what, where:** pointed blue hat, head, blue suit, clothes

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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 (pointed blue hat, rest), 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:pg55:5:62
# text = An old, pointed blue hat, that had belonged to some Munchkin, was perched on his head, and the rest of the figure was a blue suit of clothes, worn and faded, which had also been stuffed with straw.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	pointed	point	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
5	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	belonged	belong	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	Munchkin	Munchkin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	perched	perch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	suit	suit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	parataxis	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	faded	fade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	42	nsubj:pass	_	_
39	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
40	also	also	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
41	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	42	aux:pass	_	_
42	stuffed	stuff	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	conj	_	_
43	with	with	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **point** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **belong** | past · perfect | a pointed blue hat |  |  |  |  | to some Munchkin | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **perch** | past · passive |  | a pointed blue hat |  | Kansas's head |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on head=Destination |
| 4 | **is a** | past | the rest of the figure | a blue suit |  |  |  | of clothes | tree rules |
| 5 | **wear** | participle |  | clothes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **fade** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **stuff** | past · perfect · passive |  | a blue suit |  |  |  | with straw | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with straw=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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