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title: They carried the sleeping girl to a pretty spot beside the river, fa… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: They carried the sleeping girl to a pretty spot beside the river, far enough from the poppy field to prevent her breathing any more of the poison of the flowers, and here they laid her gently on the soft grass and waited for the fresh breeze to waken her. Who acts: babies. A sentence of «The Wonderf
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 95

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They carried the sleeping girl to a pretty spot beside the river, far enough from the poppy field to prevent her breathing any more of the poison of the flowers, and here they laid her gently on the soft grass and waited for the fresh breeze to waken her.

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**Who acts:** babies · **What happens:** carry, prevent, breathe, lay, wait, waken · **To what, where:** sleeping girl, river, girl, soft grass

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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 (babies), 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:pg55:10:95
# text = They carried the sleeping girl to a pretty spot beside the river, far enough from the poppy field to prevent her breathing any more of the poison of the flowers, and here they laid her gently on the soft grass and waited for the fresh breeze to waken her.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
15	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	poppy	poppy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	prevent	prevent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	breathing	breathe	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	xcomp	_	_
24	any	any	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	36	advmod	_	_
35	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
37	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
39	on	on	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
45	for	for	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	breeze	breeze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
49	to	to	PART	TO	_	50	mark	_	_
50	waken	waken	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	advcl	_	_
51	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | past | babies *= baby* | the sleeping girl |  | the river |  | to a pretty spot; from the poppy field; enough *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent girl=Theme to spot=Destination from field=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **prevent** | to-infinitive | babies *= baby* *not said here* | girl |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **breathe** | gerund | babies *= baby* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **lay** | past | babies *= baby* | girl |  | the soft grass; here |  | gently *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme on grass=Destination |
| 5 | **wait** | past | babies *= baby* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the fresh breeze | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **waken** | to-infinitive | babies *= baby* *not said here* | girl |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=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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