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title: Soon they rolled the Lion out of the poppy bed to the green fields,… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon they rolled the Lion out of the poppy bed to the green fields, where he could breathe the sweet, fresh air again, instead of the poisonous scent of the flowers. Who acts: orders, Lion. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, with its
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 63

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Soon they rolled the Lion out of the poppy bed to the green fields, where he could breathe the sweet, fresh air again, instead of the poisonous scent of the flowers.

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**Who acts:** orders, Lion · **What happens:** roll, breathe, scent · **To what, where:** Lion, poppy bed, sweet fresh air, flowers

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (orders, Lion), 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:pg55:11:63
# text = Soon they rolled the Lion out of the poppy bed to the green fields, where he could breathe the sweet, fresh air again, instead of the poisonous scent of the flowers.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	poppy	poppy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	advmod	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	breathe	breathe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
25	again	again	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	31	case	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	fixed	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	scent	scent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll** | past | orders *= order* | the Lion |  | the poppy bed |  | to the green fields; soon *property* | vn slide-11.2-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent lion=Theme out bed=Initial\_Location to field=Destination |
| 2 | **breathe** | could | Lion | the sweet fresh air |  |  | again |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme |
| 3 | **scent** |  |  | the flowers |  |  |  |  | nom scent «cognition 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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