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title: There was a tiny fountain in the middle of the room, that shot a spr… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: There was a tiny fountain in the middle of the room, that shot a spray of green perfume into the air, to fall back into a beautifully carved green marble basin. Who acts: tiny fountain, that. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, with its 
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 30

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There was a tiny fountain in the middle of the room, that shot a spray of green perfume into the air, to fall back into a beautifully carved green marble basin.

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**Who acts:** tiny fountain, that · **What happens:** be, shoot, fall back, carve · **To what, where:** spray, air, carved green marble basin

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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 (tiny fountain, that), 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:pg55:13:30
# text = There was a tiny fountain in the middle of the room, that shot a spray of green perfume into the air, to fall back into a beautifully carved green marble basin.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	shot	shoot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	spray	spray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	perfume	perfume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	parataxis	_	_
26	back	back	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
29	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	carved	carve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	amod	_	_
31	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	basin	basin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a tiny fountain in the middle of the room |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **shoot** | past | that | a spray of green perfume |  | the air |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent spray=Theme into air=Destination |
| 3 | **fall back** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | into a carved green marble basin *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into basin=Result |
| 4 | **carve** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | beautifully *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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