The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 2

Behind them was the dark forest they had passed safely through, although they had suffered many discouragements; but before them was a lovely, sunny country that seemed to beckon them on to the Emerald City.

Who acts: trees, lovely sunny country · What happens: be, pass, suffer, seem, beckon on · To what, where: dark forest, trees, many discouragements, lovely sunny country, Emerald City

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trees, lovely sunny country), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Behind	behind	ADP	_	6 forest	case
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 forest	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 forest	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 forest	det
5	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 forest	amod
6	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 passed	obl
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 passed	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 passed	aux
9	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	safely	safely	ADV	_	9 passed	advmod
11	through	through	ADV	_	9 passed	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 suffered	punct
13	although	although	SCONJ	_	16 suffered	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 suffered	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 suffered	aux
16	suffered	suffer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 passed	advcl
17	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 discouragements	amod
18	discouragements	discouragement	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 suffered	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 country	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 country	cc
21	before	before	SCONJ	_	28 country	mark
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 country	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 country	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 country	det
25	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 country	amod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 lovely	punct
27	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 country	amod
28	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 passed	obl
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 seemed	nsubj
30	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 country	acl:relcl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 beckon	mark
32	beckon	beckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 seemed	xcomp
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 beckon	obj
34	on	on	ADP	_	32 beckon	compound:prt
35	to	to	ADP	_	38 City	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 City	det
37	Emerald	Emerald	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 City	compound
38	City	City	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 beckon	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	trees = tree			the dark forest		tree rules
2	pass	past · perfect · passive		trees = tree			safely, through property	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory
3	suffer	past · perfect	trees = tree	many discouragements				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer discouragement=Stimulus
4	is a	past	trees = tree	a lovely sunny country				tree rules
5	seem	past	a lovely sunny country					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
6	beckon on	to-infinitive	a lovely sunny country not said here	trees = tree	the Emerald City			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to city=Recipient

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.

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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