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title: But it takes time to make a raft, even when one is as industrious an… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: But it takes time to make a raft, even when one is as industrious and untiring as the Tin Woodman, and when night came the work was not done. Who acts: it, one, night. 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 
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 85

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But it takes time to make a raft, even when one is as industrious and untiring as the Tin Woodman, and when night came the work was not done.

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**Who acts:** it, one, night · **What happens:** take, make, be, come, not do · **To what, where:** raft, work

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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 (it, one, night), 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:pg55:9:85
# text = But it takes time to make a raft, even when one is as industrious and untiring as the Tin Woodman, and when night came the work was not done.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	raft	raft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	even	even	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
11	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	15	mark	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	industrious	industrious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	vocative	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	untiring	untiring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Tin	Tin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
25	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present | it |  |  |  | time |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | a raft |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset raft=Product |
| 3 | **is** | present | one |  |  |  |  | industrious *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as the Tin Woodman | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** | past | night |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **do** | past · passive |  | the work |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

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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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