The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 61
“Aren’t they beautiful?” the girl asked, as she breathed in the spicy scent of the bright flowers.
Who acts: blossoms, girl · What happens: not be, ask, breathe, scent · To what, where: spicy scent, bright flowers · 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 (blossoms, girl), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 beautiful | punct |
| 2 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 beautiful | cop |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 beautiful | advmod |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 beautiful | nsubj |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 beautiful | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 beautiful | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 girl | det |
| 9 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 breathed | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 breathed | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 breathed | nsubj |
| 14 | breathed | breathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 scent | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 scent | det |
| 17 | spicy | spicy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 scent | amod |
| 18 | scent | scent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 breathed | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 flowers | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 flowers | det |
| 21 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 flowers | amod |
| 22 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 scent | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | blossoms = blossom | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the girl | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | breathe | past | girl | the spicy scent of the bright flowers | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | scent | the bright flowers | nom scent «cognition 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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