The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 14

So he kept a good distance away from the flames, and only came near to cover Dorothy with dry leaves when she lay down to sleep.

Who acts: Lion, Dorothy · What happens: keep, come, cover, lie down, sleep · To what, where: good distance, flames, Dorothy

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lion, Dorothy), 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 kept	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kept	nsubj
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 distance	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 distance	amod
6	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	obj
7	away	away	ADV	_	3 kept	advmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 flames	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 flames	det
10	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 kept	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 came	cc
13	only	only	ADV	_	14 came	advmod
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 kept	conj
15	near	near	ADV	_	14 came	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 cover	mark
17	cover	cover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 came	advcl
18	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 cover	obj
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 leaves	case
20	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 leaves	amod
21	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 cover	obl
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 lay	advmod
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 lay	nsubj
24	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 cover	advcl
25	down	down	ADV	_	24 lay	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 sleep	mark
27	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 lay	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	keep	past	Lion	a good distance		the flames	away property	vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer distance=Beneficiary from flame=Eventuality
2	come	past	Lion not said here				near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	cover	to-infinitive	Lion not said here		Dorothy		with dry leaves	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent dorothy=Destination with leaf=Theme
4	lie down	past	Dorothy				down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	sleep	to-infinitive	Dorothy not said here					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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