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title: As they advanced the ground became rougher and hillier, for there we… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: As they advanced the ground became rougher and hillier, for there were no farms nor houses in this country of the West, and the ground was untilled. Who acts: buttercups, ground, farms. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, with it
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 17

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As they advanced the ground became rougher and hillier, for there were no farms nor houses in this country of the West, and the ground was untilled.

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**Who acts:** buttercups, ground, farms · **What happens:** advance, become, be, until · **To what, where:** ground

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (buttercups, ground, farms), 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:pg55:14:17
# text = As they advanced the ground became rougher and hillier, for there were no farms nor houses in this country of the West, and the ground was untilled.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	advanced	advance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	rougher	rough	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	xcomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	hillier	hilly	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
13	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	farms	farm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
16	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	17	cc	_	_
17	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	untilled	until	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **advance** | past | buttercups *= buttercup* |  |  |  |  |  | vn promote-102 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **become** | past | the ground |  |  |  |  | rough *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **be** | past | no farms in this country of the West nor houses |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **until** | past · passive |  | the ground |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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