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title: They walked over a pavement of the same green marble, and where the… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: They walked over a pavement of the same green marble, and where the blocks were joined together were rows of emeralds, set closely, and glittering in the brightness of the sun. The window panes were of green glass; even the sky above the City had a green tint, and the rays of the sun were green. Who
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 3

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They walked over a pavement of the same green marble, and where the blocks were joined together were rows of emeralds, set closely, and glittering in the brightness of the sun. The window panes were of green glass; even the sky above the City had a green tint, and the rays of the sun were green.

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**Who acts:** streets, window panes, sky, rays · **What happens:** walk, join, be, set, glitter, have · **To what, where:** pavement, blocks, rows, brightness, green tint, sun

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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: who acts (streets, window panes, sky, rays), 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:pg55:13:3
# text = They walked over a pavement of the same green marble, and where the blocks were joined together were rows of emeralds, set closely, and glittering in the brightness of the sun. The window panes were of green glass; even the sky above the City had a green tint, and the rays of the sun were green.
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	over	over	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	pavement	pavement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	blocks	block	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	joined	join	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
18	together	together	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	rows	row	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	emeralds	emerald	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
25	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	glittering	glitter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	brightness	brightness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	sun.	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	panes	pane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
38	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	49	punct	_	_
43	even	even	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
46	above	above	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
49	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	tint	tint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	rays	ray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	61	nsubj	_	_
57	of	of	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nmod	_	_
60	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	61	cop	_	_
61	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	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 | streets *= street* |  |  | a pavement of the same green marble |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over pavement=Trajectory |
| 2 | **join** | past · passive |  | the blocks |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | rows |  |  |  | of emeralds; together *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **set** | participle |  | rows *not said here* |  |  |  | closely *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **glitter** | gerund | streets *= street* *not said here* |  |  | the brightness of the sun. and green glass |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in brightness=Location |
| 6 | **is** | past | the window panes |  |  |  |  | of green glass | tree rules |
| 7 | **have** | past | the sky above the City | a green tint |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tint=Patient |
| 8 | **is** | past | the rays of the sun |  |  |  |  | green *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **ray** |  |  | the sun |  |  |  |  | nom ray «phenomenon 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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