The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 63

Soon they rolled the Lion out of the poppy bed to the green fields, where he could breathe the sweet, fresh air again, instead of the poisonous scent of the flowers.

Who acts: orders, Lion · What happens: roll, breathe, scent · To what, where: Lion, poppy bed, sweet fresh air, flowers

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (orders, Lion), 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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 rolled	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rolled	nsubj
3	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Lion	det
5	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 rolled	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	10 bed	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 bed	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bed	det
9	poppy	poppy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bed	compound
10	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rolled	obl
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 fields	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fields	det
13	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fields	amod
14	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rolled	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 breathe	punct
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 breathe	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 breathe	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 breathe	aux
19	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 rolled	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 air	det
21	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 air	amod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sweet	punct
23	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 air	amod
24	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 breathe	obj
25	again	again	ADV	_	19 breathe	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 scent	punct
27	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	31 scent	case
28	of	of	ADP	_	27 instead	fixed
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 scent	det
30	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 scent	amod
31	scent	scent	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 breathe	conj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 flowers	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 flowers	det
34	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 scent	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rolled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll	past	orders = order	the Lion	the poppy bed		to the green fields; soon property	vn slide-11.2-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent lion=Theme out bed=Initial_Location to field=Destination
2	breathe	could	Lion	the sweet fresh air		again		vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme
3	scent			the flowers				nom scent «cognition transitive»: of=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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