The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 30

They were all tired out when they reached the shore at last and stepped off upon the pretty green grass, and they also knew that the stream had carried them a long way past the road of yellow brick that led to the Emerald City.

Who acts: Scarecrow, yellow brick · What happens: be, reach, step off, know, carry, lead · To what, where: shore, last, pretty green grass, stream

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 (Scarecrow, yellow brick), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tired	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tired	cop
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 tired	advmod
4	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 tired	compound:prt
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 reached	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 reached	nsubj
8	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tired	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shore	det
10	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reached	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 last	case
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 reached	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 stepped	cc
14	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 reached	conj
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 stepped	compound:prt
16	upon	upon	ADP	_	20 grass	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 grass	det
18	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 grass	amod
19	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 grass	amod
20	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stepped	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 knew	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 knew	cc
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 knew	nsubj
24	also	also	ADV	_	25 knew	advmod
25	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tired	parataxis
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 carried	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 stream	det
28	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 carried	nsubj:pass
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 carried	aux
30	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 knew	advcl
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 carried	obj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 way	det
33	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 way	amod
34	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 carried	obl:unmarked
35	past	past	ADP	_	37 road	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 road	det
37	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 way	nmod
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 brick	case
39	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 brick	amod
40	brick	brick	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 road	nmod
41	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 led	nsubj
42	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 brick	acl:relcl
43	to	to	ADP	_	46 City	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 City	det
45	Emerald	Emerald	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 City	compound
46	City	City	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 led	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Scarecrow			all, tired property	tree rules
2	reach	past	Scarecrow	the shore	last		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent shore=Theme at last=Asset
3	step off	past	Scarecrow not said here		the pretty green grass		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon grass=Trajectory
4	know	past	Scarecrow				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	carry	past · perfect · passive		the stream		a long way past the road of yellow brick obl:unmarked	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary they=Value
6	lead	past	yellow brick			to the Emerald City	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to city=Patient

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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