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title: So they lay down among the sweet smelling yellow flowers and slept s… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: So they lay down among the sweet smelling yellow flowers and slept soundly until morning—all but the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman. Who acts: travelers. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 7

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So they lay down among the sweet smelling yellow flowers and slept soundly until morning—all but the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman.

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**Who acts:** travelers · **What happens:** lay down, smell, sleep · **To what, where:** sweet smelling yellow flowers

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (travelers), 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:pg55:16:7
# text = So they lay down among the sweet smelling yellow flowers and slept soundly until morning—all but the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	among	among	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	smelling	smell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	amod	_	_
9	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	soundly	soundly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	until	until	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Tin	Tin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay down** | present | travelers *= traveler* |  |  | the sweet smelling yellow flowers |  | down *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent among flower=Destination |
| 2 | **smell** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **sleep** | past | travelers *= traveler* *not said here* |  |  |  | morning | soundly *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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