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title: On the feet were some old boots with blue tops, such as every man wo… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: On the feet were some old boots with blue tops, such as every man wore in this country, and the figure was raised above the stalks of corn by means of the pole stuck up its back. Who acts: feet, man, pole. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved th
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 63

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On the feet were some old boots with blue tops, such as every man wore in this country, and the figure was raised above the stalks of corn by means of the pole stuck up its back.

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**Who acts:** feet, man, pole · **What happens:** be, wear, raise, mean, stick up · **To what, where:** old boots, blue tops, country, figure, stalks, back

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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 (feet, man, pole), 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:pg55:5:63
# text = On the feet were some old boots with blue tops, such as every man wore in this country, and the figure was raised above the stalks of corn by means of the pole stuck up its back.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	tops	top	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	15	case	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	raised	raise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	nsubj	_	_
26	above	above	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	stalks	stalk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	pole	pole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	stuck	stick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	acl	_	_
37	up	up	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	_
38	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the feet |  |  | some old boots |  | with blue tops | tree rules |
| 2 | **wear** | past | every man | blue tops *not said here* |  | this country |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent top=Source |
| 3 | **raise** | past · passive |  | the figure |  | the stalks of corn |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme above stalk=Destination |
| 4 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  | of the pole | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **stick up** | participle | the pole *not said here* | figure's back |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent back=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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