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title: The streets were lined with beautiful houses all built of green marb… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: The streets were lined with beautiful houses all built of green marble and studded everywhere with sparkling emeralds. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 2

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The streets were lined with beautiful houses all built of green marble and studded everywhere with sparkling emeralds.

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**What happens:** line, build, stud · **To what, where:** streets

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg55:13:2
# text = The streets were lined with beautiful houses all built of green marble and studded everywhere with sparkling emeralds.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	lined	line	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	all	all	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	studded	stud	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
15	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	14	advmod	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	sparkling	sparkling	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	emeralds	emerald	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **line** | past · passive |  | the streets |  |  |  | with beautiful houses | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with house=Theme |
| 2 | **build** | past |  |  |  |  |  | of green marble; all *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **stud** | past |  |  |  |  |  | with sparkling emeralds; everywhere *property* | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with emerald=Theme |

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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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