The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 30

There was a tiny fountain in the middle of the room, that shot a spray of green perfume into the air, to fall back into a beautifully carved green marble basin.

Who acts: tiny fountain, that · What happens: be, shoot, fall back, carve · To what, where: spray, air, carved green marble basin

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 (tiny fountain, that), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fountain	det
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fountain	amod
5	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 middle	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 middle	det
8	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fountain	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 room	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 room	det
11	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 middle	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 shot	punct
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 shot	nsubj
14	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fountain	parataxis
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 spray	det
16	spray	spray	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shot	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 perfume	case
18	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 perfume	amod
19	perfume	perfume	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 spray	nmod
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 air	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 air	det
22	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shot	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 fall	punct
24	to	to	PART	_	25 fall	mark
25	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 shot	parataxis
26	back	back	ADV	_	25 fall	advmod
27	into	into	ADP	_	33 basin	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 basin	det
29	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	_	30 carved	advmod
30	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 basin	amod
31	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 basin	amod
32	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 basin	compound
33	basin	basin	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fall	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a tiny fountain in the middle of the room		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shoot	past	that	a spray of green perfume	the air		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent spray=Theme into air=Destination
3	fall back	to-infinitive				into a carved green marble basin result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into basin=Result
4	carve	participle				beautifully property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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