The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter I. The Cyclone, sentence 45

In the middle of a cyclone the air is generally still, but the great pressure of the wind on every side of the house raised it up higher and higher, until it was at the very top of the cyclone; and there it remained and was carried miles and miles away as easily as you could carry a feather.

Who acts: air, great pressure, house, you · What happens: be, raise up, remain, carry, press · To what, where: house, top, miles, feather, wind

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 (air, great pressure, house, you), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 middle	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 middle	det
3	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 cyclone	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cyclone	det
6	cyclone	cyclone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 middle	nmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 air	det
8	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 still	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 still	cop
10	generally	generally	ADV	_	11 still	advmod
11	still	still	ADV	_	6 cyclone	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 raised	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 raised	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 pressure	det
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 pressure	amod
16	pressure	pressure	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 raised	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 wind	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 wind	det
19	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pressure	nmod
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 side	case
21	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	22 side	det
22	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wind	nmod
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 house	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 house	det
25	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 side	nmod
26	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 still	parataxis
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 raised	obj
28	up	up	ADP	_	26 raised	compound:prt
29	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 raised	xcomp
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 higher	cc
31	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 higher	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 top	punct
33	until	until	SCONJ	_	39 top	mark
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 top	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 top	cop
36	at	at	ADP	_	39 top	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 top	det
38	very	very	ADV	_	39 top	advmod
39	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 raised	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 cyclone	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 cyclone	det
42	cyclone	cyclone	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 top	nmod
43	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 remained	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 there	cc
45	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	47 remained	advmod
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 remained	nsubj
47	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 raised	parataxis
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 carried	cc
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 carried	aux:pass
50	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 remained	conj
51	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 carried	obj
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 miles	cc
53	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 miles	conj
54	away	away	ADV	_	50 carried	advmod
55	as	as	ADV	_	56 easily	advmod
56	easily	easily	ADV	_	50 carried	advmod
57	as	as	SCONJ	_	60 carry	mark
58	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	60 carry	nsubj
59	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	60 carry	aux
60	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 carried	advcl
61	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	62 feather	det
62	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 carry	obj
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 middle	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the air			generally, still property	tree rules
2	raise up	past	the great pressure of the wind on every side of the house	house		high property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	is	past	house		the top	of the cyclone	tree rules
4	remain	past	house		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	carry	past · passive	house not said here	miles and miles		away, easily property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: mile=Theme
6	carry	could	you	a feather			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Theme
7	press			the wind on every side of the house			nom pressure «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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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