The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 95

They carried the sleeping girl to a pretty spot beside the river, far enough from the poppy field to prevent her breathing any more of the poison of the flowers, and here they laid her gently on the soft grass and waited for the fresh breeze to waken her.

Who acts: babies · What happens: carry, prevent, breathe, lay, wait, waken · To what, where: sleeping girl, river, girl, soft grass

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 (babies), 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 carried	nsubj
2	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 girl	det
4	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 girl	compound
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carried	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 spot	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 spot	det
8	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 spot	amod
9	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carried	obl
10	beside	beside	ADP	_	12 river	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 river	det
12	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carried	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 enough	punct
14	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 enough	advmod
15	enough	enough	ADV	_	2 carried	advmod
16	from	from	ADP	_	19 field	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 field	det
18	poppy	poppy	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 field	compound
19	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carried	obl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 prevent	mark
21	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 carried	advcl
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 prevent	obj
23	breathing	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 prevent	xcomp
24	any	any	ADV	_	25 more	advmod
25	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 prevent	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 poison	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 poison	det
28	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 more	nmod
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 flowers	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 flowers	det
31	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 poison	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 laid	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 laid	cc
34	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 laid	advmod
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 laid	nsubj
36	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 carried	conj
37	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 laid	obj
38	gently	gently	ADV	_	36 laid	advmod
39	on	on	ADP	_	42 grass	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 grass	det
41	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 grass	amod
42	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 laid	obl
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 waited	cc
44	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 carried	conj
45	for	for	ADP	_	48 breeze	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 breeze	det
47	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 breeze	amod
48	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 waited	obl
49	to	to	PART	_	50 waken	mark
50	waken	waken	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 waited	advcl
51	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 waken	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	carry	past	babies = baby	the sleeping girl	the river	to a pretty spot; from the poppy field; enough property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent girl=Theme to spot=Destination from field=Initial_Location
2	prevent	to-infinitive	babies = baby not said here	girl			tree rules
3	breathe	gerund	babies = baby not said here				vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	lay	past	babies = baby	girl	the soft grass; here	gently property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme on grass=Destination
5	wait	past	babies = baby not said here			for the fresh breeze	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	waken	to-infinitive	babies = baby not said here	girl			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=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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