The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter I. The Cyclone, sentence 32
Then he ran toward the sheds where the cows and horses were kept.
Who acts: Henry · What happens: run, keep · To what, where: sheds, cows
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 (Henry), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 ran | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 6 sheds | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sheds | det |
| 6 | sheds | shed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ran | obl |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 kept | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cows | det |
| 9 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 horses | cc |
| 11 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cows | conj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 kept | aux:pass |
| 13 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 sheds | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | Henry | the sheds | then | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward shed=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | keep | past · passive | the cows and horses | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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