The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter I. The Cyclone, sentence 40

When she was halfway across the room there came a great shriek from the wind, and the house shook so hard that she lost her footing and sat down suddenly upon the floor.

Who acts: Aunt, room, house · What happens: be, come, shake, lose, sit down · To what, where: great shriek, wind, footing, floor

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, room, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 halfway	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 halfway	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 halfway	cop
4	halfway	halfway	ADV	_	9 came	advmod
5	across	across	ADP	_	7 room	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 room	det
7	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	nsubj
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 room	advmod
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 shriek	det
11	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 shriek	amod
12	shriek	shriek	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	obj
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 wind	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wind	det
15	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shriek	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 shook	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 shook	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 house	det
19	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 shook	nsubj
20	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	conj
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 hard	advmod
22	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 shook	advmod
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 lost	mark
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 lost	nsubj
25	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 shook	advcl
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 footing	nmod:poss
27	footing	footing	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lost	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 sat	cc
29	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 lost	conj
30	down	down	ADP	_	29 sat	compound:prt
31	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	29 sat	advmod
32	upon	upon	ADP	_	34 floor	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 floor	det
34	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sat	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Aunt			halfway property	tree rules
2	come	past	the room	a great shriek	the wind		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shriek=Theme
3	shake	past	the house			hard property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	lose	past	Aunt	Aunt's footing			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent footing=Eventuality
5	sit down	past	Aunt not said here		the floor	suddenly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon floor=Location

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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