The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter I. The Cyclone, sentence 38
Aunt Em, badly frightened, threw open the trap door in the floor and climbed down the ladder into the small, dark hole.
Who acts: Aunt · What happens: frighten, throw, open, climb down · To what, where: Em, trap door, floor, ladder, small dark hole
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 (Aunt), 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 | Aunt | aunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 threw | nsubj |
| 2 | Em | Em | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Aunt | appos |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 frightened | punct |
| 4 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 frightened | advmod |
| 5 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Em | acl:relcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Aunt | punct |
| 7 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 threw | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 door | det |
| 10 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 door | compound |
| 11 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 open | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 floor | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 floor | det |
| 14 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 open | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 climbed | cc |
| 16 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 threw | conj |
| 17 | down | down | ADP | _ | 16 climbed | compound:prt |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ladder | det |
| 19 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 climbed | obj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 hole | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 hole | det |
| 22 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 hole | amod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 small | punct |
| 24 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 hole | amod |
| 25 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 climbed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | participle | Em not said here | badly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | throw | past | Aunt | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | open | infinitive | Aunt not said here | the trap door | the floor | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent door=Theme in floor=Location | |||
| 4 | climb down | past | Aunt not said here | the ladder | the small dark hole | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location ladder=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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