The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 109
Growing from her shoulders were wings, gorgeous in color and so light that they fluttered if the slightest breath of air reached them.
Who acts: shoulders, slightest breath · What happens: grow, be, flutter, reach · To what, where: wings, shoulders
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shoulders, slightest breath), 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 | Growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 fluttered | advcl |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 wings | case |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 4 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 wings | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wings | cop |
| 6 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Growing | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 gorgeous | punct |
| 8 | gorgeous | gorgeous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wings | amod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 color | case |
| 10 | color | color | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gorgeous | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 light | cc |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 light | advmod |
| 13 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Growing | conj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 fluttered | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 fluttered | nsubj |
| 16 | fluttered | flutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 reached | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 breath | det |
| 19 | slightest | slight | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 breath | amod |
| 20 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 reached | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 air | case |
| 22 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 breath | nmod |
| 23 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 fluttered | advcl |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 reached | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 fluttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | gerund | shoulders = shoulder not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Oz's shoulders | wings | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | flutter | past | shoulders = shoulder | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | reach a condition, not said to happen | past | the slightest breath of air | shoulders = shoulder | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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