The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Opening, sentence 20
How the Balloon Was Launched Chapter XVIII.
Who acts: Balloon · What happens: launch, chapter
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Balloon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Chapter | det |
| 3 | Balloon | Balloon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Chapter | nsubj |
| 4 | Was | Was | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Chapter | compound |
| 5 | Launched | launch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 Chapter | amod |
| 6 | Chapter | chapter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 How | nsubj |
| 7 | XVIII | XVIII | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Chapter | appos |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 How | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | launch | participle | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | chapter | Balloon | tree rules |
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.
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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