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title: On the other side of the water they could see the road of yellow bri… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: On the other side of the water they could see the road of yellow brick running through a beautiful country, with green meadows dotted with bright flowers and all the road bordered with trees hanging full of delicious fruits. Who acts: travelers, yellow brick, trees. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wiza
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 78

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On the other side of the water they could see the road of yellow brick running through a beautiful country, with green meadows dotted with bright flowers and all the road bordered with trees hanging full of delicious fruits.

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**Who acts:** travelers, yellow brick, trees · **What happens:** see, run, dot, border, hang · **To what, where:** road, other side, beautiful country, green meadows

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (travelers, yellow brick, 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:pg55:9:78
# text = On the other side of the water they could see the road of yellow brick running through a beautiful country, with green meadows dotted with bright flowers and all the road bordered with trees hanging full of delicious fruits.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	brick	brick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	through	through	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
25	dotted	dot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	32	det:predet	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
33	bordered	border	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl:agent	_	_
36	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	35	acl	_	_
37	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	xcomp	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	delicious	delicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	fruits	fruit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | could | travelers *= traveler* | the road of yellow brick |  | the other side |  | of the water; with green meadows and all road | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer road=Stimulus |
| 2 | **run** | gerund | yellow brick *not said here* |  |  | a beautiful country |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through country=Trajectory |
| 3 | **dot** | participle |  | green meadows and all road *not said here* |  |  |  | with bright flowers | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with flower=Theme |
| 4 | **border** | participle |  | all road *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **hang** | gerund | trees *not said here* |  |  |  |  | full *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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