The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 88
They followed the bend of the river, and at last came upon their friend the Lion, lying fast asleep among the poppies.
Who acts: Scarecrow · What happens: follow, come, lie · To what, where: bend, last
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), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 followed | nsubj |
| 2 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bend | det |
| 4 | bend | bend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 followed | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 river | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 river | det |
| 7 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bend | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 came | cc |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 last | case |
| 11 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 came | obl |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 followed | parataxis |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 friend | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 friend | nmod:poss |
| 15 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Lion | det |
| 17 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 friend | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lying | punct |
| 19 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 came | advcl |
| 20 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 asleep | advmod |
| 21 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 lying | xcomp |
| 22 | among | among | ADP | _ | 24 poppies | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 poppies | det |
| 24 | poppies | poppy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 asleep | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | Scarecrow | the bend of the river | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bend=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | last | upon Scarecrow's friend | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location | ||||
| 3 | lie | gerund | asleep property | vn assuming_position-50 «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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