--- title: The road was smooth and well paved, now, and the country about was b… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: The road was smooth and well paved, now, and the country about was beautiful, so that the travelers rejoiced in leaving the forest far behind, and with it the many dangers they had met in its gloomy shades. Who acts: road, travelers, dangers. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Ba --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/12/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Wonderful Wizard of Oz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/) / [Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/12/) / 10 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 10 The road was smooth and well paved, now, and the country about was beautiful, so that the travelers rejoiced in leaving the forest far behind, and with it the many dangers they had met in its gloomy shades. **Who acts:** road, travelers, dangers · **What happens:** be, pave, rejoice, leave, meet, shade · **To what, where:** forest, gloomy shades This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (road, travelers, dangers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg55:12:10 # text = The road was smooth and well paved, now, and the country about was beautiful, so that the travelers rejoiced in leaving the forest far behind, and with it the many dangers they had met in its gloomy shades. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 smooth smooth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 advmod _ _ 7 paved pave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 14 about about ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 19 that that SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 travelers traveler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 rejoiced rejoice VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 23 in in SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 24 leaving leave VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 28 advmod _ _ 28 behind behind ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obl _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 dangers danger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 36 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 met meet VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 41 gloomy gloomy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 shades shade NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the road | | | | | smooth *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **pave** | participle | the road *not said here* | | | | now | well *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | past | | | | | | beautiful *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **rejoice** | past | the travelers | | | | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **leave** | gerund | the travelers *not said here* | the forest | | | | behind *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=Theme | | 6 | **meet** | past · perfect | dangers *= danger* | | | road's gloomy shades | | with road | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with it=Co-Agent | | 7 | **shade** | | road | | | | | | nom shade «state transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/12/9/) - next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/12/11/) - ↑ back to [Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/12/)