The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 1

It was some time before the Cowardly Lion awakened, for he had lain among the poppies a long while, breathing in their deadly fragrance; but when he did open his eyes and roll off the truck he was very glad to find himself still alive.

Who acts: It, Cowardly Lion, Lion · What happens: be, awaken, lie, breathe, open, roll off · To what, where: time, poppies, deadly fragrance, eyes, Lion

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, Cowardly Lion, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 time	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 time	cop
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 awakened	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Lion	det
7	Cowardly	Cowardly	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Lion	compound
8	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 awakened	nsubj
9	awakened	awaken	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 time	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lain	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 lain	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 lain	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 lain	aux
14	lain	lie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 awakened	conj
15	among	among	ADP	_	17 poppies	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 poppies	det
17	poppies	poppy	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 lain	obl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 while	det
19	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 while	amod
20	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 poppies	nmod:unmarked
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 breathing	punct
22	breathing	breathe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 lain	advcl
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 fragrance	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 fragrance	nmod:poss
25	deadly	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 fragrance	amod
26	fragrance	fragrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 breathing	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 open	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 open	cc
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	32 open	advmod
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 open	nsubj
31	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 open	aux
32	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 time	parataxis
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 eyes	nmod:poss
34	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 open	obj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 roll	cc
36	roll	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 open	conj
37	off	off	ADP	_	39 truck	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 truck	det
39	truck	truck	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 glad	obl
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 glad	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 glad	cop
42	very	very	ADV	_	43 glad	advmod
43	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 roll	ccomp
44	to	to	PART	_	45 find	mark
45	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 glad	xcomp
46	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	45 find	obj
47	still	still	ADV	_	48 alive	advmod
48	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 find	xcomp
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 time	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	some time			tree rules
2	awaken	past	the Cowardly Lion				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	lie	past · perfect	Lion		the poppies a long while		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among poppy=Location
4	breathe	gerund	Lion not said here		poppies's deadly fragrance		vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	open	past · do-support	Lion	Lion's eyes			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme
6	roll off	present	Lion not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is	past	Lion			off the truck; glad property	tree rules
8	find	to-infinitive	Lion not said here	Lion		alive property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic

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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