The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter I. The Cyclone, sentence 9
The sun had baked the plowed land into a gray mass, with little cracks running through it.
Who acts: little cracks · What happens: bake, plow, run · To what, where: sun, gray mass
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 (little cracks), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sun | det |
| 2 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 baked | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 baked | aux |
| 4 | baked | bake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 land | det |
| 6 | plowed | plow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 land | amod |
| 7 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 baked | obj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 mass | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 mass | det |
| 10 | gray | gray | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 mass | amod |
| 11 | mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 baked | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cracks | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 cracks | case |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cracks | amod |
| 15 | cracks | crack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 baked | obl |
| 16 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 cracks | acl |
| 17 | through | through | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 running | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 baked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bake | past · perfect · passive | the sun | a gray mass | with little cracks | tree rules | |||
| 2 | plow | participle | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | run | gerund | little cracks not said here | sun | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through it=Trajectory |
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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