--- title: Behind them was the dark forest they had passed safely through, alth… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: Behind them was the dark forest they had passed safely through, although they had suffered many discouragements; but before them was a lovely, sunny country that seemed to beckon them on to the Emerald City. Who acts: trees, lovely sunny country. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Fran --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/10/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Wonderful Wizard of Oz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/) / [Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/10/) / 2 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 2 Behind them was the dark forest they had passed safely through, although they had suffered many discouragements; but before them was a lovely, sunny country that seemed to beckon them on to the Emerald City. **Who acts:** trees, lovely sunny country · **What happens:** be, pass, suffer, seem, beckon on · **To what, where:** dark forest, trees, many discouragements, lovely sunny country, Emerald City This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trees, lovely sunny country), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg55:10:2 # text = Behind them was the dark forest they had passed safely through, although they had suffered many discouragements; but before them was a lovely, sunny country that seemed to beckon them on to the Emerald City. 1 Behind behind ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 2 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 passed pass VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 10 safely safely ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 through through ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 although although SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 suffered suffer VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 17 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 discouragements discouragement NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 21 before before SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 22 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 25 lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 27 sunny sunny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 29 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 30 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 beckon beckon VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 33 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 on on ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 Emerald Emerald PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 City City PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | trees *= tree* | | | the dark forest | | | tree rules | | 2 | **pass** | past · perfect · passive | | trees *= tree* | | | | safely, through *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | | 3 | **suffer** | past · perfect | trees *= tree* | many discouragements | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer discouragement=Stimulus | | 4 | **is a** | past | trees *= tree* | a lovely sunny country | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **seem** | past | a lovely sunny country | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 6 | **beckon on** | to-infinitive | a lovely sunny country *not said here* | trees *= tree* | the Emerald City | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to city=Recipient | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/10/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/10/3/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/10/)