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title: And Dorothy oiled them and the Scarecrow bent them carefully until t… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: And Dorothy oiled them and the Scarecrow bent them carefully until they were quite free from rust and as good as new. Who acts: Dorothy, Scarecrow, arms. 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
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 31

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And Dorothy oiled them and the Scarecrow bent them carefully until they were quite free from rust and as good as new.

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**Who acts:** Dorothy, Scarecrow, arms · **What happens:** oil, bend, be · **To what, where:** arms, rust

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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 (Dorothy, Scarecrow, arms), 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:pg55:7:31
# text = And Dorothy oiled them and the Scarecrow bent them carefully until they were quite free from rust and as good as new.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	oiled	oil	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	bent	bend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
11	until	until	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	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advcl	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	rust	rust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	as	as	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	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 | Dorothy | arms *= arm* |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Destination |
| 2 | **bend** | past | the Scarecrow | arms *= arm* |  |  |  | carefully *property* | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent they=Material |
| 3 | **is** | past | arms *= arm* |  |  | rust |  | free *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | arms *= arm* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as new | 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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