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title: They walked along listening to the singing of the brightly colored b… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: They walked along listening to the singing of the brightly colored birds and looking at the lovely flowers which now became so thick that the ground was carpeted with them. Who acts: air, lovely flowers. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Fiel
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 59

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They walked along listening to the singing of the brightly colored birds and looking at the lovely flowers which now became so thick that the ground was carpeted with them.

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**Who acts:** air, lovely flowers · **What happens:** walk, listen, look, become, carpet, sing · **To what, where:** ground, brightly colored birds

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (air, lovely flowers), 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:pg55:10:59
# text = They walked along listening to the singing of the brightly colored birds and looking at the lovely flowers which now became so thick that the ground was carpeted with them.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	along	along	ADP	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	listening	listen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	singing	singing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	brightly	brightly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	colored	colored	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
21	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	carpeted	carpet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	advcl	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past | air |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **listen** | gerund | air *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the singing of the brightly colored birds | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to singing=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | gerund | air *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the lovely flowers | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at flower=Theme |
| 4 | **become** | past | the lovely flowers |  |  |  | now | thick *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **carpet** | past · passive |  | the ground |  |  |  | with air | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with they=Theme |
| 6 | **sing** |  |  | the brightly colored birds |  |  |  |  | nom singing «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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