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title: There were big yellow and white and blue and purple blossoms, beside… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: There were big yellow and white and blue and purple blossoms, besides great clusters of scarlet poppies, which were so brilliant in color they almost dazzled Dorothy’s eyes. Who acts: big yellow blossoms, great clusters, clusters. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter 
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 60

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There were big yellow and white and blue and purple blossoms, besides great clusters of scarlet poppies, which were so brilliant in color they almost dazzled Dorothy’s eyes.

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**Who acts:** big yellow blossoms, great clusters, clusters · **What happens:** be, dazzle · **To what, where:** color, eyes

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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 (big yellow blossoms, great clusters, clusters), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg55:10:60
# text = There were big yellow and white and blue and purple blossoms, besides great clusters of scarlet poppies, which were so brilliant in color they almost dazzled Dorothy’s eyes.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
4	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
11	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	besides	besides	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	clusters	cluster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	poppies	poppy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	color	color	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	dazzled	dazzle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’s	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | big yellow blossoms |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | great clusters of scarlet poppies |  |  | color |  | brilliant *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **dazzle** | past | clusters *= cluster* | Dorothy's eyes |  |  |  | almost *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus eye=Experiencer |

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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.

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**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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