The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 60

There were big yellow and white and blue and purple blossoms, besides great clusters of scarlet poppies, which were so brilliant in color they almost dazzled Dorothy’s eyes.

Who acts: big yellow blossoms, great clusters, clusters · What happens: be, dazzle · To what, where: color, eyes

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 (big yellow blossoms, great clusters, clusters), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 blossoms	amod
4	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 blossoms	amod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 white	cc
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 yellow	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 blue	cc
8	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 yellow	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 purple	cc
10	purple	purple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 yellow	conj
11	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 clusters	punct
13	besides	besides	ADP	_	15 clusters	case
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 clusters	amod
15	clusters	cluster	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 poppies	case
17	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 poppies	compound
18	poppies	poppy	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 clusters	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 brilliant	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 brilliant	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 brilliant	cop
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 brilliant	advmod
23	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 clusters	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 color	case
25	color	color	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 brilliant	obl
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 dazzled	nsubj
27	almost	almost	ADV	_	28 dazzled	advmod
28	dazzled	dazzle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 color	acl:relcl
29	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 eyes	nmod:poss
30	’s	's	PART	_	29 Dorothy	case
31	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 dazzled	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	big yellow blossoms		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	great clusters of scarlet poppies		color	brilliant property	tree rules
3	dazzle	past	clusters = cluster	Dorothy's eyes		almost property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus eye=Experiencer

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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