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title: Her eyes closed in spite of herself and she forgot where she was and… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: Her eyes closed in spite of herself and she forgot where she was and fell among the poppies, fast asleep. Who acts: eyes, Dorothy. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 74

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Her eyes closed in spite of herself and she forgot where she was and fell among the poppies, fast asleep.

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**Who acts:** eyes, Dorothy · **What happens:** close, forget, be, fall, spite · **To what, where:** poppies, Dorothy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (eyes, Dorothy), 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:pg55:10:74
# text = Her eyes closed in spite of herself and she forgot where she was and fell among the poppies, fast asleep.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	among	among	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	poppies	poppy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
21	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **close** | participle | Dorothy's eyes |  |  |  |  | in spite of Dorothy | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent in spite=Topic |
| 2 | **forget** | past | Dorothy |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** | past | Dorothy |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **fall** | past | Dorothy *not said here* |  |  | the poppies |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme among poppy=Location |
| 5 | **spite** |  |  | Dorothy |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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