The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 74
Her eyes closed in spite of herself and she forgot where she was and fell among the poppies, fast asleep.
Who acts: eyes, Dorothy · What happens: close, forget, be, fall, spite · To what, where: poppies, Dorothy · 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 (eyes, Dorothy), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 closed | nsubj |
| 3 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 spite | case |
| 5 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 closed | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 herself | case |
| 7 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 spite | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 forgot | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 forgot | nsubj |
| 10 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 closed | conj |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 was | advmod |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 was | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 forgot | ccomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fell | cc |
| 15 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 forgot | conj |
| 16 | among | among | ADP | _ | 18 poppies | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 poppies | det |
| 18 | poppies | poppy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 fell | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 asleep | punct |
| 20 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 asleep | advmod |
| 21 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 poppies | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 closed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | participle | Dorothy's eyes | in spite of Dorothy | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent in spite=Topic | ||||
| 2 | forget | past | Dorothy | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be | past | Dorothy | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | fall | past | Dorothy not said here | the poppies | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme among poppy=Location | ||||
| 5 | spite | Dorothy | nom spite «feeling 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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