The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter I. The Cyclone, sentence 11

Once the house had been painted, but the sun blistered the paint and the rains washed it away, and now the house was as dull and gray as everything else.

Who acts: sun, rains, house · What happens: paint, blister, wash away, be · To what, where: paint, sun

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter I. The Cyclone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, rains, house), 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	Once	once	SCONJ	_	3 house	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 house	det
3	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 painted	obl
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 painted	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 painted	aux:pass
6	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 blistered	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 blistered	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sun	det
10	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 blistered	nsubj
11	blistered	blister	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 painted	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 paint	det
13	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 blistered	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 washed	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 rains	det
16	rains	rain	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 washed	nsubj
17	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 blistered	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 washed	obj
19	away	away	ADV	_	17 washed	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 dull	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 dull	cc
22	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 dull	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 house	det
24	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dull	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 dull	cop
26	as	as	ADP	_	27 dull	case
27	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 painted	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 gray	cc
29	gray	gray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 dull	conj
30	as	as	ADP	_	31 everything	case
31	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	27 dull	obl
32	else	else	ADV	_	31 everything	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 painted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	paint	past · perfect · passive				once the house	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»
2	blister	past	the sun	the paint			tree rules
3	wash away	past	the rains	sun		away property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	is	past	the house		now	as everything; dull property	tree rules
5	be		the house not said here				tree rules

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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