The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter I. The Cyclone, sentence 51

But soon she saw one of his ears sticking up through the hole, for the strong pressure of the air was keeping him up so that he could not fall.

Who acts: girl, ears, air, Toto · What happens: see, stick up, keep up, not fall · To what, where: one, hole, Toto

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 (girl, ears, air, Toto), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 saw	cc
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 saw	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 saw	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 ears	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 ears	nmod:poss
8	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 one	nmod
9	sticking	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 ears	acl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 sticking	compound:prt
11	through	through	ADP	_	13 hole	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hole	det
13	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sticking	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 pressure	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	18 pressure	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 pressure	det
17	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 pressure	amod
18	pressure	pressure	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	conj
19	of	of	SCONJ	_	23 keeping	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 air	det
21	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 keeping	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 keeping	aux
23	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 pressure	advcl
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 keeping	obj
25	up	up	ADP	_	23 keeping	compound:prt
26	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	31 fall	mark
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 so	fixed
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 fall	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 fall	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 fall	advmod
31	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 keeping	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	girl	one of Toto's ears		soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
2	stick up	gerund	Toto's ears not said here		the hole		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through hole=Destination
3	keep up	past · progressive	the air	Toto			vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	not fall	could	Toto				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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