The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter I. The Cyclone, sentence 54
At first she had wondered if she would be dashed to pieces when the house fell again; but as the hours passed and nothing terrible happened, she stopped worrying and resolved to wait calmly and see what the future would bring.
Who acts: wind, house, nothing, future · What happens: wonder, dash, fall, pass, happen, stop · To what, where: wind · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (wind, house, nothing, future), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 first | case |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 wondered | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wondered | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wondered | aux |
| 5 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 dashed | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 dashed | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 dashed | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 dashed | aux:pass |
| 10 | dashed | dash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 wondered | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 pieces | case |
| 12 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 dashed | obl |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 fell | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 house | det |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fell | nsubj |
| 16 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 pieces | acl:relcl |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 fell | advmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 passed | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 passed | cc |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 hours | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 hours | det |
| 22 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 passed | obl |
| 23 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wondered | parataxis |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 happened | cc |
| 25 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 27 happened | nsubj |
| 26 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 nothing | amod |
| 27 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 passed | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 stopped | punct |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 stopped | nsubj |
| 30 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 passed | conj |
| 31 | worrying | worry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 stopped | xcomp |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 resolved | cc |
| 33 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 stopped | conj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 wait | mark |
| 35 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 resolved | xcomp |
| 36 | calmly | calmly | ADV | _ | 35 wait | advmod |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 see | cc |
| 38 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 wait | conj |
| 39 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 43 bring | obj |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 future | det |
| 41 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 bring | nsubj |
| 42 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 bring | aux |
| 43 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 see | ccomp |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wondered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | past · perfect | wind | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | dash a condition, not said to happen | would · passive | wind | to pieces result | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to piece=Result | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | the house | again | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pass | past | hour | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | happen | past | nothing | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | stop | past | wind | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | worry | gerund | wind not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 8 | resolve | past | wind not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | wait | to-infinitive | wind not said here | calmly property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 10 | see | infinitive | wind not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 11 | bring | would | the future | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent what=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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