The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter I. The Cyclone, sentence 44
The north and south winds met where the house stood, and made it the exact center of the cyclone.
Who acts: north winds, house · What happens: meet, stand, make · To what, where: house
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 (north winds, 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 | 5 winds | det |
| 2 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 winds | compound |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 south | cc |
| 4 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 north | conj |
| 5 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 met | nsubj |
| 6 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 stood | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stood | nsubj |
| 10 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 met | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 made | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 made | cc |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 met | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 made | obj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 center | det |
| 16 | exact | exact | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 center | amod |
| 17 | center | center | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 cyclone | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cyclone | det |
| 20 | cyclone | cyclone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 center | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | the north winds | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | stand | past | the house | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | make | past | the north winds not said here | house | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset it=Beneficiary center=Product |
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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