The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 87
On and on they walked, and it seemed that the great carpet of deadly flowers that surrounded them would never end.
Who acts: Scarecrow, it, great carpet · What happens: walk, seem, surround, not end · To what, where: deadly 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 (Scarecrow, it, great carpet), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 5 walked | mark |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 walked | cc |
| 3 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 5 walked | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 walked | nsubj |
| 5 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 seemed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 seemed | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 seemed | nsubj |
| 9 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 walked | conj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 end | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 carpet | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 carpet | amod |
| 13 | carpet | carpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 end | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 flowers | case |
| 15 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 flowers | amod |
| 16 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 carpet | nmod |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 flowers | acl |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 surrounded | obj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 end | aux |
| 21 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 22 end | advmod |
| 22 | end | end | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 seemed | ccomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | Scarecrow | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | seem | past | it | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | surround | participle · passive | deadly flowers | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not end | would | the great carpet of deadly flowers | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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