The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 70
But Dorothy did not know this, nor could she get away from the bright red flowers that were everywhere about; so presently her eyes grew heavy and she felt she must sit down to rest and to sleep.
Who acts: Dorothy, eyes · What happens: not know, get away, grow, feel, sit down, rest · To what, where: this, bright red 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 (Dorothy, eyes), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 know | cc |
| 2 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 know | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 know | advmod |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 know | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 get | punct |
| 8 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 11 get | cc |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 get | aux |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 get | nsubj |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 know | conj |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 get | advmod |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 flowers | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 flowers | det |
| 15 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 flowers | amod |
| 16 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 flowers | amod |
| 17 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 get | obl |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 were | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 flowers | acl:relcl |
| 20 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 19 were | advmod |
| 21 | about | about | ADV | _ | 19 were | advmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 grew | punct |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 grew | advmod |
| 24 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 27 grew | advmod |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 26 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 grew | nsubj |
| 27 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | parataxis |
| 28 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 grew | xcomp |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 felt | cc |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 felt | nsubj |
| 31 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 grew | conj |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 sit | nsubj |
| 33 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 sit | aux |
| 34 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 felt | ccomp |
| 35 | down | down | ADV | _ | 34 sit | advmod |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 rest | mark |
| 37 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 sit | advcl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 sleep | cc |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 sleep | mark |
| 40 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 rest | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | Dorothy | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | get away | could | Dorothy | the bright red flowers | away property | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from flower=Source | |||
| 3 | grow | past | Dorothy's eyes | heavy, presently property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | feel | past | Dorothy | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | sit down | must | Dorothy | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | rest | to-infinitive | Dorothy not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | sleep | to-infinitive | Dorothy not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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