The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched, sentence 43
Gradually the balloon swelled out and rose into the air, until finally the basket just touched the ground.
Who acts: balloon, basket · What happens: swell out, rise, touch · To what, where: air, ground
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (balloon, basket), 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 | Gradually | gradually | ADV | _ | 4 swelled | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 balloon | det |
| 3 | balloon | balloon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 swelled | nsubj |
| 4 | swelled | swell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 swelled | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 rose | cc |
| 7 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 swelled | conj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 air | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 air | det |
| 10 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rose | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 touched | punct |
| 12 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 17 touched | mark |
| 13 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 15 basket | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 basket | det |
| 15 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 touched | nsubj |
| 16 | just | just | ADV | _ | 17 touched | advmod |
| 17 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 swelled | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ground | det |
| 19 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 touched | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 swelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swell out | past | the balloon | gradually property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | rise | past | the balloon not said here | the air | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into air=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | touch | past | the basket | the ground | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Co-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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