The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter I. The Cyclone, sentence 56
In spite of the swaying of the house and the wailing of the wind, Dorothy soon closed her eyes and fell fast asleep.
Who acts: Dorothy, wind · What happens: close, fall, spite, wail · To what, where: eyes, swaying
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 (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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 spite | case |
| 2 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 closed | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 swaying | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 swaying | det |
| 5 | swaying | swaying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spite | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 house | det |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swaying | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wailing | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wailing | det |
| 11 | wailing | wailing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swaying | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 wind | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wind | det |
| 14 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wailing | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 spite | punct |
| 16 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 closed | nsubj |
| 17 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 closed | advmod |
| 18 | closed | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 20 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 closed | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fell | cc |
| 22 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 closed | conj |
| 23 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 fell | advmod |
| 24 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 fell | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 closed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | past | Dorothy | Dorothy's eyes | in spite of the swaying of the house and the wailing of the wind; soon property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Patient in spite=Topic | |||
| 2 | fall | past | Dorothy not said here | asleep, fast property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | spite | the swaying of the house and the wailing of the wind | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | wail | the wind | nom wailing «act intransitive»: of=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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