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title: So she oiled it, and as it was quite badly rusted the Scarecrow took… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: So she oiled it, and as it was quite badly rusted the Scarecrow took hold of the tin head and moved it gently from side to side until it worked freely, and then the man could turn it himself. Who acts: Woodman, Scarecrow, neck, man. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapte
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 29

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So she oiled it, and as it was quite badly rusted the Scarecrow took hold of the tin head and moved it gently from side to side until it worked freely, and then the man could turn it himself.

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**Who acts:** Woodman, Scarecrow, neck, man · **What happens:** oil, rust, take, move, work, turn · **To what, where:** neck, hold, side, tin head

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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 (Woodman, Scarecrow, neck, 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:pg55:7:29
# text = So she oiled it, and as it was quite badly rusted the Scarecrow took hold of the tin head and moved it gently from side to side until it worked freely, and then the man could turn it himself.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	oiled	oil	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
10	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
12	rusted	rust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Scarecrow	Scarecrow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
29	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
32	freely	freely	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
35	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	39	advmod	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
38	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	_
41	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **oil** | past | Woodman | neck |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination |
| 2 | **rust** | past · passive |  | neck |  |  |  | badly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | past | the Scarecrow | hold of the tin head |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme |
| 4 | **move** | past | the Scarecrow *not said here* | neck |  | side |  | to side *result*; gently *property* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.initial\_state PP.result»: agent=Patient it=Extent from side=Initial\_State to side=Result |
| 5 | **work** | past | neck |  |  |  |  | freely *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **turn** | could | the man | neck |  |  | then |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: agent=Agent it=Theme himself=Result |
| 7 | **hold** |  |  | the tin head |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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