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title: “They are rusted so badly that I cannot move them at all; if I am we… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: “They are rusted so badly that I cannot move them at all; if I am well oiled I shall soon be all right again. Who acts: man. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 25

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“They are rusted so badly that I cannot move them at all; if I am well oiled I shall soon be all right again.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** rust, not move, oil, be · **To what, where:** joints, all, man

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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:pg55:7:25
# text = “They are rusted so badly that I cannot move them at all; if I am well oiled I shall soon be all right again.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	rusted	rust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
19	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
20	oiled	oil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
22	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
23	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
25	all	all	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	parataxis	_	_
27	again	again	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rust** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | joints *= joint* |  |  |  | badly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **move** *in a quote* | can | man | joints *= joint* |  | all |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **oil** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present · passive |  | man |  |  |  | well *property* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | shall | man |  |  |  | again | all, right, soon *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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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