The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 59

They walked along listening to the singing of the brightly colored birds and looking at the lovely flowers which now became so thick that the ground was carpeted with them.

Who acts: air, lovely flowers · What happens: walk, listen, look, become, carpet, sing · To what, where: ground, brightly colored birds

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 (air, lovely flowers), 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	ADP	_	4 listening	mark
4	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 walked	advcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 singing	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 singing	det
7	singing	singing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 listening	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 birds	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 birds	det
10	brightly	brightly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 birds	amod
11	colored	colored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 birds	amod
12	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 singing	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 looking	cc
14	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 listening	conj
15	at	at	ADP	_	18 flowers	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 flowers	det
17	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 flowers	amod
18	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 looking	obl
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 became	nsubj
20	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 became	advmod
21	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 flowers	acl:relcl
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 thick	advmod
23	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 became	xcomp
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 carpeted	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 ground	det
26	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 carpeted	nsubj:pass
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 carpeted	aux:pass
28	carpeted	carpet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 thick	advcl
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 carpeted	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	air				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	listen	gerund	air not said here			to the singing of the brightly colored birds	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to singing=Theme
3	look	gerund	air not said here			at the lovely flowers	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at flower=Theme
4	become	past	the lovely flowers		now	thick property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	carpet	past · passive		the ground		with air	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with they=Theme
6	sing			the brightly colored birds			nom singing «act transitive»: of=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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