The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter I. The Cyclone, sentence 2
Their house was small, for the lumber to build it had to be carried by wagon many miles.
Who acts: house · What happens: be, build, have, carry · To what, where: many miles
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 (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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 house | nmod:poss |
| 2 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 small | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 small | cop |
| 4 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lumber | punct |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 lumber | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lumber | det |
| 8 | lumber | lumber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 small | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 build | mark |
| 10 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 lumber | acl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 build | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 carried | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 carried | aux:pass |
| 15 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 had | xcomp |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 wagon | case |
| 17 | wagon | wagon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 carried | obl |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 miles | amod |
| 19 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 carried | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 small | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | prairies's house | for the lumber; small property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | build | to-infinitive | prairies's house not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have | past | house | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | carry | to-infinitive · passive | house not said here | many miles | by wagon | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: mile=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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