The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter I. The Cyclone, sentence 53
Hour after hour passed away, and slowly Dorothy got over her fright; but she felt quite lonely, and the wind shrieked so loudly all about her that she nearly became deaf.
Who acts: Hour, Dorothy, wind · What happens: pass away, get, feel, shriek, become, fright · To what, where: fright
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 (Hour, Dorothy, 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 | Hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | nsubj |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 3 hour | case |
| 3 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hour | nmod |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 passed | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 got | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 got | cc |
| 8 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 10 got | advmod |
| 9 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 got | nsubj |
| 10 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | conj |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 fright | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 fright | nmod:poss |
| 13 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 got | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 felt | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 felt | cc |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 felt | nsubj |
| 17 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | conj |
| 18 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 19 lonely | advmod |
| 19 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 felt | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 shrieked | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 shrieked | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 wind | det |
| 23 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 shrieked | nsubj |
| 24 | shrieked | shriek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | conj |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 loudly | advmod |
| 26 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 24 shrieked | advmod |
| 27 | all | all | ADV | _ | 29 her | advmod |
| 28 | about | about | ADP | _ | 29 her | case |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 shrieked | obl |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 became | mark |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 became | nsubj |
| 32 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 33 became | advmod |
| 33 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 shrieked | advcl |
| 34 | deaf | deaf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 became | xcomp |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass away | past | Hour after hour | away property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | get | past | Dorothy | Dorothy's fright | slowly property | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over fright=Destination | |||
| 3 | feel | past | Dorothy | lonely property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | shriek | past | the wind | about Dorothy; loudly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about she=Location | ||||
| 5 | become | past | wind | deaf, nearly property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | fright | Dorothy | nom fright «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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