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title: They began walking through the country of the china people, and the… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: They began walking through the country of the china people, and the first thing they came to was a china milkmaid milking a china cow. Who acts: others, first thing, china milkmaid. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, with its dependency
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 30

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They began walking through the country of the china people, and the first thing they came to was a china milkmaid milking a china cow.

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**Who acts:** others, first thing, china milkmaid · **What happens:** begin, walk, come, be, milk · **To what, where:** country, china milkmaid, china cow

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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 (others, first thing, china milkmaid), 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:pg55:22:30
# text = They began walking through the country of the china people, and the first thing they came to was a china milkmaid milking a china cow.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	china	china	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	15	amod	_	_
15	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	china	china	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	milkmaid	milkmaid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	milking	milk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	china	china	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | others *= other* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **walk** | gerund | others *= other* *not said here* |  |  | the country of the china people |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through country=Trajectory |
| 3 | **come** | past | the first thing |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | a china milkmaid |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **milk** | gerund | a china milkmaid *not said here* | a china cow |  |  |  |  | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Source |

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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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