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title: The flowers had been too strong for the huge beast and he had given… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: The flowers had been too strong for the huge beast and he had given up at last, and fallen only a short distance from the end of the poppy bed, where the sweet grass spread in beautiful green fields before them. Who acts: flowers, sweet grass. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank B
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 89

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The flowers had been too strong for the huge beast and he had given up at last, and fallen only a short distance from the end of the poppy bed, where the sweet grass spread in beautiful green fields before them.

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**Who acts:** flowers, sweet grass · **What happens:** be, give up, fall, spread · **To what, where:** carpet, last, short distance, beautiful green fields

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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 (flowers, sweet grass), 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:pg55:10:89
# text = The flowers had been too strong for the huge beast and he had given up at last, and fallen only a short distance from the end of the poppy bed, where the sweet grass spread in beautiful green fields before them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
21	only	only	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	poppy	poppy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	37	advmod	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
40	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	_
42	before	before	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past · perfect | the flowers |  |  |  |  | for the huge beast; strong *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **give up** | past · perfect · passive |  | carpet |  | last |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Source |
| 3 | **fall** | participle | the flowers *not said here* | a short distance from the end of the poppy bed |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **spread** | past | the sweet grass |  |  | beautiful green fields | before flowers *= flower* |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in field=Location |

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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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