The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter I. The Cyclone, sentence 6
It was reached by a trap door in the middle of the floor, from which a ladder led down into the small, dark hole.
Who acts: trap door, ladder · What happens: reach, lead down · To what, where: garret, middle, small dark hole
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 (trap door, ladder), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reached | aux:pass |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 door | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 door | det |
| 6 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 door | compound |
| 7 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 middle | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 middle | det |
| 10 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 floor | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 floor | det |
| 13 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 middle | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 led | punct |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 led | obl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 ladder | det |
| 18 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 led | nsubj |
| 19 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reached | conj |
| 20 | down | down | ADV | _ | 19 led | advmod |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 hole | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 hole | det |
| 23 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 hole | amod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 small | punct |
| 25 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 hole | amod |
| 26 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 led | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past · passive | a trap door | garret | the middle of the floor | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | lead down | past | a ladder | the small dark hole | down property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent from which=Destination |
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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