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title: There were also pretty little barns, with china fences around them;… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: There were also pretty little barns, with china fences around them; and many cows and sheep and horses and pigs and chickens, all made of china, were standing about in groups. Who acts: little barns, many cows. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XX. The Dainty China
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 20

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There were also pretty little barns, with china fences around them; and many cows and sheep and horses and pigs and chickens, all made of china, were standing about in groups.

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**Who acts:** little barns, many cows · **What happens:** be, make, stand · **To what, where:** all

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little barns, many cows), 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:pg55:22:20
# text = There were also pretty little barns, with china fences around them; and many cows and sheep and horses and pigs and chickens, all made of china, were standing about in groups.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	barns	barn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	china	china	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	fences	fence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
11	around	around	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
15	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	chickens	chicken	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	china	china	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
31	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
33	about	about	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	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 | little barns and china fences around fences |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | participle · passive |  | all |  |  |  | of china | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **stand** | past · progressive | many cows and sheep and horses and pigs and chickens |  |  |  |  | about groups | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about group=Location |

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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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