The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter I. The Cyclone, sentence 47
After the first few whirls around, and one other time when the house tipped badly, she felt as if she were being rocked gently, like a baby in a cradle.
Who acts: house, wind · What happens: tip, feel, rock · To what, where: 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 (house, wind), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 5 whirls | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 whirls | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 whirls | amod |
| 4 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 whirls | amod |
| 5 | whirls | whirl | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | around | around | ADV | _ | 5 whirls | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 felt | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 felt | cc |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 time | nummod |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 time | amod |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 felt | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 15 tipped | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 house | det |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tipped | nsubj |
| 15 | tipped | tip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 felt | advcl |
| 16 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 tipped | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tipped | punct |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 felt | nsubj |
| 19 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 whirls | conj |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 rocked | mark |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 rocked | mark |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 rocked | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 rocked | aux:pass |
| 24 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 rocked | aux:pass |
| 25 | rocked | rock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 felt | advcl |
| 26 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 25 rocked | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 baby | punct |
| 28 | like | like | ADP | _ | 30 baby | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 baby | det |
| 30 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 rocked | advcl |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 cradle | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 cradle | det |
| 33 | cradle | cradle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 baby | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 whirls | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tip | past | the house | badly property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | wind | time | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | rock | past · passive | wind | gently property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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