The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 77
“The smell of the flowers is killing us all.
Who acts: smell, flowers · What happens: kill, smell · To what, where: us
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 (smell, flowers), 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 | _ | 8 killing | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 smell | det |
| 3 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 killing | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 flowers | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 flowers | det |
| 6 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 smell | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 killing | aux |
| 8 | killing | kill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 killing | obj |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 us | nmod:unmarked |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 killing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill in a quote | present · progressive | the smell of the flowers | us | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | ||||
| 2 | smell in a quote | the flowers | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=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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