The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees, sentence 27

They slept that night on the grass, with nothing but the stars over them; and they rested very well indeed.

Who acts: flowers · What happens: sleep, rest · To what, where: grass

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flowers), 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 slept	nsubj
2	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 night	det
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slept	obl:unmarked
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 grass	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 grass	det
7	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slept	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 nothing	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 nothing	case
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 grass	appos
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 stars	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stars	det
13	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 nothing	conj
14	over	over	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 nothing	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 rested	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 rested	cc
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 rested	nsubj
19	rested	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 slept	conj
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 well	advmod
21	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 rested	advmod
22	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	19 rested	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 slept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past	flowers = flower			the grass	night		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	rest	past	flowers = flower					indeed, well property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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