The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 7

So they lay down among the sweet smelling yellow flowers and slept soundly until morning—all but the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman.

Who acts: travelers · What happens: lay down, smell, sleep · To what, where: sweet smelling yellow flowers

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (travelers), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 lay	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lay	nsubj
3	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 lay	advmod
5	among	among	ADP	_	10 flowers	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 flowers	det
7	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 flowers	amod
8	smelling	smell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 flowers	amod
9	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 flowers	amod
10	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lay	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 slept	cc
12	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lay	conj
13	soundly	soundly	ADV	_	12 slept	advmod
14	until	until	ADP	_	15 morning	case
15	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 slept	obl
16	—	-	PUNCT	_	20 Scarecrow	punct
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 Scarecrow	det
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 Scarecrow	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Scarecrow	det
20	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lay	parataxis
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 Woodman	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Woodman	det
23	Tin	Tin	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Woodman	compound
24	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Scarecrow	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay down	present	travelers = traveler	the sweet smelling yellow flowers		down property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent among flower=Destination
2	smell	gerund					vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sleep	past	travelers = traveler not said here		morning	soundly property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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