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title: His padded hands were so clumsy and the nuts were so small that he d… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: His padded hands were so clumsy and the nuts were so small that he dropped almost as many as he put in the basket. Who acts: padded hands, nuts, Lion. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 12

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His padded hands were so clumsy and the nuts were so small that he dropped almost as many as he put in the basket.

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**Who acts:** padded hands, nuts, Lion · **What happens:** be, drop, put · **To what, where:** many, basket

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (padded hands, nuts, Lion), 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:pg55:9:12
# text = His padded hands were so clumsy and the nuts were so small that he dropped almost as many as he put in the basket.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	padded	padded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	clumsy	clumsy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
16	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	obj	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Lion's padded hands |  |  |  |  | clumsy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | the nuts |  |  |  |  | small *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **drop** | past | Lion | many |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Theme |
| 4 | **put** | past | Lion |  |  | the basket |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in basket=Destination |

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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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