The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 113
For a day and a night I traveled through the air, and on the morning of the second day I awoke and found the balloon floating over a strange and beautiful country.
Who acts: I, balloon · What happens: travel, awake, find, float · To what, where: air, balloon, strange country
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 (I, 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 traveled | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 night | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 night | det |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | conj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 traveled | nsubj |
| 8 | traveled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 air | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 air | det |
| 11 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 traveled | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 awoke | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 awoke | cc |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 morning | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 morning | det |
| 16 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 awoke | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 day | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 day | det |
| 19 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 day | amod |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 awoke | obl |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 awoke | nsubj |
| 22 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 traveled | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 found | cc |
| 24 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 awoke | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 balloon | det |
| 26 | balloon | balloon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 found | obj |
| 27 | floating | float | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 balloon | acl |
| 28 | over | over | ADP | _ | 33 country | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 country | det |
| 30 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 country | amod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 beautiful | cc |
| 32 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 strange | conj |
| 33 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 floating | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 traveled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | past | I | the air | day | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | awake | past | I | day; morning | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | past | I not said here | the balloon | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent balloon=Topic | ||||
| 4 | float | gerund | the balloon not said here | a strange country | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over country=Trajectory |
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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