The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 35

It was a lovely country, with plenty of flowers and fruit trees and sunshine to cheer them, and had they not felt so sorry for the poor Scarecrow, they could have been very happy.

Who acts: river, trees · What happens: be, cheer, not feel · To what, where: lovely country, trees

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 (river, trees), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 country	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 country	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 country	det
4	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 country	amod
5	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 plenty	punct
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 plenty	case
8	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 country	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 flowers	case
10	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 plenty	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 trees	cc
12	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 trees	compound
13	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 flowers	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sunshine	cc
15	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flowers	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 cheer	mark
17	cheer	cheer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 sunshine	acl
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 cheer	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 felt	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 felt	cc
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 felt	aux
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 felt	nsubj
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 felt	advmod
24	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 country	parataxis
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 sorry	advmod
26	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 felt	xcomp
27	for	for	ADP	_	30 Scarecrow	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Scarecrow	det
29	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 Scarecrow	amod
30	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sorry	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 happy	punct
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 happy	nsubj
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 happy	aux
34	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 happy	aux
35	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 happy	cop
36	very	very	ADV	_	37 happy	advmod
37	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 felt	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 country	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	river	a lovely country and plenty of flowers and fruit trees and sunshine		tree rules
2	cheer	to-infinitive	river not said here	trees = tree		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer
3	not feel	past	trees = tree		sorry property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	is	could · perfect	trees = tree		happy property	tree rules

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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