The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 111
“Well, one day I went up in a balloon and the ropes got twisted, so that I couldn’t come down again.
Who acts: Dorothy, ropes · What happens: go up, get, not come down
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dorothy, ropes), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 went | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 day | nummod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 went | compound:prt |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 balloon | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 balloon | det |
| 11 | balloon | balloon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 got | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ropes | det |
| 14 | ropes | rope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 got | nsubj |
| 15 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 16 | twisted | twisted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 got | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 come | punct |
| 18 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 23 come | mark |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 so | fixed |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 come | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 come | aux |
| 22 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 come | advmod |
| 23 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 got | conj |
| 24 | down | down | ADV | _ | 23 come | advmod |
| 25 | again | again | ADV | _ | 23 come | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up in a quote | past | Dorothy | day | in a balloon | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in balloon=Attribute | |||
| 2 | get in a quote | past | the ropes | twisted property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | not come down in a quote | could | Dorothy | again | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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