The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 69
Now it is well known that when there are many of these flowers together their odor is so powerful that anyone who breathes it falls asleep, and if the sleeper is not carried away from the scent of the flowers, he sleeps on and on forever.
Who acts: anyone, ground · What happens: know, be, breathe, fall, not carry away, sleep · To what, where: more, sleeper, flowers
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 (anyone, ground), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 known | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 known | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 known | aux:pass |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 known | advmod |
| 5 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 powerful | advcl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 many | mark |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 are | mark |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 are | expl |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 many | cop |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 known | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 flowers | case |
| 12 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 flowers | det |
| 13 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 many | nmod |
| 14 | together | together | ADV | _ | 13 flowers | advmod |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 odor | nmod:poss |
| 16 | odor | odor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 flowers | conj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 powerful | cop |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 powerful | advmod |
| 19 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 falls | mark |
| 21 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 25 falls | nsubj |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 breathes | nsubj |
| 23 | breathes | breathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 anyone | acl:relcl |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 breathes | obj |
| 25 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 powerful | advcl |
| 26 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 falls | xcomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 sleeps | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 sleeps | cc |
| 29 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 34 carried | mark |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 sleeper | det |
| 31 | sleeper | sleeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 carried | aux:pass |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 carried | advmod |
| 34 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 sleeps | advcl |
| 35 | away | away | ADV | _ | 34 carried | advmod |
| 36 | from | from | ADP | _ | 38 scent | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 scent | det |
| 38 | scent | scent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 away | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 flowers | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 flowers | det |
| 41 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 scent | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 carried | punct |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 sleeps | nsubj |
| 44 | sleeps | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 falls | conj |
| 45 | on | on | ADV | _ | 44 sleeps | advmod |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 forever | cc |
| 47 | on | on | ADP | _ | 48 forever | case |
| 48 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 45 on | conj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 powerful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present · passive | more | now | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is | present | of this flowers and flowers's odor; many property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | present | powerful property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | breathe | present | more | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 5 | fall | present | anyone | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | not carry away a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | the sleeper | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 7 | sleep | present | ground | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | scent | the 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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