--- title: Now it is well known that when there are many of these flowers toget… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: Now it is well known that when there are many of these flowers together their odor is so powerful that anyone who breathes it falls asleep, and if the sleeper is not carried away from the scent of the flowers, he sleeps on and on forever. Who acts: anyone, ground. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/10/69/) [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/) / 69 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 69 Now it is well known that when there are many of these flowers together their odor is so powerful that anyone who breathes it falls asleep, and if the sleeper is not carried away from the scent of the flowers, he sleeps on and on forever. **Who acts:** anyone, ground · **What happens:** know, be, breathe, fall, not carry away, sleep · **To what, where:** more, sleeper, flowers 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 (anyone, ground), 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:pg55:10:69 # text = Now it is well known that when there are many of these flowers together their odor is so powerful that anyone who breathes it falls asleep, and if the sleeper is not carried away from the scent of the flowers, he sleeps on and on forever. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 4 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ _ 5 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 advcl _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 7 when when SCONJ WRB _ 9 mark _ _ 8 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 9 expl _ _ 9 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 13 det _ _ 13 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 14 together together ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 odor odor NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 powerful powerful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 20 that that SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 21 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 25 nsubj _ _ 22 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 23 breathes breathe VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 falls fall VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 26 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 29 if if SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 sleeper sleeper NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux:pass _ _ 33 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 34 carried carry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 44 advcl _ _ 35 away away ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 from from ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 scent scent NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 43 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 sleeps sleep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 45 on on ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 47 on on ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 forever forever ADV RB _ 45 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | present · passive | | more | | | now | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | | 2 | **is** | present | | | | | | of this flowers and flowers's odor; many *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | | | | | | powerful *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **breathe** | present | | more | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 5 | **fall** | present | anyone | | | | | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **not** **carry away** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive | | the sleeper | | | | away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 7 | **sleep** | present | ground | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **scent** | | | the flowers | | | | | nom scent «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/10/68/) - next →: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/10/70/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/10/)