The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter I. The Cyclone, sentence 8
Not a tree nor a house broke the broad sweep of flat country that reached to the edge of the sky in all directions.
Who acts: tree, flat country · What happens: break, reach · To what, where: broad sweep, directions
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 (tree, flat country), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 tree | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 tree | det |
| 3 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 broke | nsubj |
| 4 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 house | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tree | conj |
| 7 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sweep | det |
| 9 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sweep | amod |
| 10 | sweep | sweep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 broke | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 country | case |
| 12 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 country | amod |
| 13 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sweep | nmod |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 reached | nsubj |
| 15 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 country | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 edge | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 edge | det |
| 18 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reached | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 sky | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sky | det |
| 21 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 edge | nmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 directions | case |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 directions | det |
| 24 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 reached | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | a tree nor a house | the broad sweep of flat country | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sweep=Patient | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | flat country | all directions | to the edge of the sky | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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