This paper describes a field grammar for Danish and its implementations in a Prolog version with predeclared types. In compar i s o n to the u s u s a l S - NP VP schema, this kind of grammar, where the first rule is S - CNF FF NF CF e n h a n c e s a n a l y s i s effeciency because the fields specify constituents and syntactic function at the same time. The field grammar tradition is outlinedand an o v e r v i e w of the major.