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title: There were lovely patches of greensward all about, with stately tree… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: There were lovely patches of greensward all about, with stately trees bearing rich and luscious fruits. Who acts: lovely patches, stately trees. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 7

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There were lovely patches of greensward all about, with stately trees bearing rich and luscious fruits.

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**Who acts:** lovely patches, stately trees · **What happens:** be, bear · **To what, where:** rich fruits

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lovely patches, stately trees), 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:pg55:3:7
# text = There were lovely patches of greensward all about, with stately trees bearing rich and luscious fruits.
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	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	patches	patch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	greensward	greensward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	all	all	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	stately	stately	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
13	bearing	bear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	luscious	luscious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	fruits	fruit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	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 | lovely patches of greensward |  |  | there |  | about *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bear** | gerund | stately trees *not said here* | rich fruits |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient |

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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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