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title: The farms were not nearly so well cared for here as they were farthe… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: The farms were not nearly so well cared for here as they were farther back. Who acts: farms. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 5

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The farms were not nearly so well cared for here as they were farther back.

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**Who acts:** farms · **What happens:** not care, be · **To what, where:** farms

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (farms), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg55:272`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg55:6:5
# text = The farms were not nearly so well cared for here as they were farther back.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	farms	farm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
5	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
8	cared	care	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	obl	_	_
10	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	farther	farther	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
15	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advcl	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **care** | past · passive |  | the farms |  | here |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | farms *= farm* |  |  |  |  | back, farther *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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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