The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter I. The Cyclone, sentence 42
The house whirled around two or three times and rose slowly through the air.
Who acts: house · What happens: whirl, rise · To what, where: air
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 house | det |
| 2 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 whirled | nsubj |
| 3 | whirled | whirl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | around | around | ADV | _ | 5 two | advmod |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 times | nummod |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 three | cc |
| 7 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 two | conj |
| 8 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 whirled | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 rose | cc |
| 10 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 whirled | conj |
| 11 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 10 rose | advmod |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 air | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 air | det |
| 14 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rose | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 whirled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whirl | past | the house | time | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rise | past | the house not said here | the air | slowly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through air=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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