The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 36

They walked along as fast as they could, Dorothy only stopping once to pick a beautiful flower; and after a time the Tin Woodman cried out: “Look!”

Who acts: trees, Dorothy, Tin Woodman · What happens: walk, stop, pick, cry out, look · To what, where: beautiful flower · Speech: someone speaks here

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, Dorothy, Tin Woodman), 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	2 walked	nsubj
2	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	along	along	ADV	_	2 walked	advmod
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 fast	advmod
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 walked	advmod
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 could	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 could	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 fast	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stopping	punct
10	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 stopping	nsubj
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 stopping	advmod
12	stopping	stop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 walked	advcl
13	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 stopping	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 pick	mark
15	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 stopping	advcl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 flower	det
17	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 flower	amod
18	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pick	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 cried	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 cried	cc
21	after	after	ADP	_	23 time	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 time	det
23	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cried	obl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Woodman	det
25	Tin	Tin	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Woodman	compound
26	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 cried	nsubj
27	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 walked	conj
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 cried	compound:prt
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 Look	punct
30	“	"	PUNCT	_	31 Look	punct
31	Look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 walked	advcl
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	31 Look	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	31 Look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	trees = tree			along, fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stop	gerund	Dorothy			once property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	pick	to-infinitive	Dorothy not said here	a beautiful flower			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient
4	cry out speech: express	past	the Tin Woodman		time		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	look in a quote	infinitive	trees = tree not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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