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title: There was field upon field of ripening grain, with well-paved roads… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: There was field upon field of ripening grain, with well-paved roads running between, and pretty rippling brooks with strong bridges across them. Who acts: field, paved roads. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings, with its dependency 
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings, sentence 31

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There was field upon field of ripening grain, with well-paved roads running between, and pretty rippling brooks with strong bridges across them.

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**Who acts:** field, paved roads · **What happens:** be, ripen, pave, run · **To what, where:** field, grain

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (field, paved roads), 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:pg55:24:31
# text = There was field upon field of ripening grain, with well-paved roads running between, and pretty rippling brooks with strong bridges across them.
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	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	ripening	ripen	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
8	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	paved	pave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
15	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	between	between	ADP	IN	_	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	rippling	rippling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	brooks	brook	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	bridges	bridge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	across	across	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nmod	_	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 | **be** | past | field |  |  | field; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon field=Location |
| 2 | **ripen** | gerund | field *not said here* | grain |  |  |  | with paved roads | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent grain=Patient with road=Instrument |
| 3 | **pave** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **run** | gerund | paved roads *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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