The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 89

The flowers had been too strong for the huge beast and he had given up at last, and fallen only a short distance from the end of the poppy bed, where the sweet grass spread in beautiful green fields before them.

Who acts: flowers, sweet grass · What happens: be, give up, fall, spread · To what, where: carpet, last, short distance, beautiful green fields

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 (flowers, sweet grass), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 flowers	det
2	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 strong	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 strong	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 strong	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 strong	advmod
6	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 beast	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 beast	det
9	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 beast	amod
10	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 strong	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 given	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 given	nsubj:pass
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 given	aux
14	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 strong	conj
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 given	compound:prt
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 last	case
17	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 given	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fallen	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 fallen	cc
20	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 strong	conj
21	only	only	ADV	_	24 distance	advmod
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 distance	det
23	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 distance	amod
24	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fallen	obl
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 end	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 end	det
27	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 distance	nmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 bed	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 bed	det
30	poppy	poppy	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bed	compound
31	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 end	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 spread	punct
33	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	37 spread	advmod
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 grass	det
35	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 grass	amod
36	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 spread	nsubj
37	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 distance	conj
38	in	in	ADP	_	41 fields	case
39	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 fields	amod
40	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 fields	amod
41	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 spread	obl
42	before	before	ADP	_	43 them	case
43	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 spread	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 strong	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	the flowers				for the huge beast; strong property	tree rules
2	give up	past · perfect · passive		carpet	last			vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Source
3	fall	participle	the flowers not said here	a short distance from the end of the poppy bed				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	spread	past	the sweet grass		beautiful green fields	before flowers = flower		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in field=Location

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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