The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 112
It went way up above the clouds, so far that a current of air struck it and carried it many, many miles away.
Who acts: balloon, current · What happens: go up, strike, carry · To what, where: way, clouds, balloon
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 (balloon, current), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obj |
| 4 | up | up | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 5 | above | above | ADP | _ | 7 clouds | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 clouds | det |
| 7 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 struck | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 far | advmod |
| 10 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 struck | advmod |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 struck | mark |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 current | det |
| 13 | current | current | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 struck | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 air | case |
| 15 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 current | nmod |
| 16 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 struck | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 carried | cc |
| 19 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 struck | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 carried | obj |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 miles | amod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 many | punct |
| 23 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 miles | amod |
| 24 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 away | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 carried | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | past | balloon | way | the clouds | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient way=Extent | |||
| 2 | strike | past | a current of air | balloon | far property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 3 | carry | past | a current of air not said here | balloon | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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