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title: It was gingham, with checks of white and blue; and although the blue… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: It was gingham, with checks of white and blue; and although the blue was somewhat faded with many washings, it was still a pretty frock. Who acts: dress, gingham. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, with its dependency tree and t
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 8

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It was gingham, with checks of white and blue; and although the blue was somewhat faded with many washings, it was still a pretty frock.

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**Who acts:** dress, gingham · **What happens:** be, fade · **To what, where:** gingham, blue, pretty frock

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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 (dress, gingham), 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:pg55:5:8
# text = It was gingham, with checks of white and blue; and although the blue was somewhat faded with many washings, it was still a pretty frock.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	gingham	gingham	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	checks	check	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	blue	blue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
17	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	faded	fade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	washings	washing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
25	still	still	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	frock	frock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | dress | gingham and checks of white and a pretty frock |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fade** | past · passive | gingham and checks of white and a pretty frock *not said here* | the blue |  |  |  | with many washings; somewhat *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with washing=Instrument |
| 3 | **is a** | past | dress | a pretty frock |  |  | still |  | 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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