The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish, sentence 53
Instantly she was whirling through the air, so swiftly that all she could see or feel was the wind whistling past her ears.
Who acts: bye, whirling, wind · What happens: whirl, see, feel, be, whistle · To what, where: air, wind
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bye, whirling, 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 | Instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 4 whirling | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 whirling | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 whirling | aux |
| 4 | whirling | whirl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 wind | csubj |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 air | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 air | det |
| 7 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 whirling | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 swiftly | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 swiftly | advmod |
| 10 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 15 see | advmod |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 all | mark |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 swiftly | obl |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 see | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 see | aux |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 whirling | advcl |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 feel | cc |
| 17 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 see | conj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 wind | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 wind | det |
| 20 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 21 | whistling | whistle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 wind | acl |
| 22 | past | past | ADP | _ | 24 ears | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 ears | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 whistling | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 wind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whirl | past · progressive | bye | the air | instantly property | vn coil-9.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Destination | |||
| 2 | see | could | bye | swiftly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | feel | infinitive | bye not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | whirling | the wind | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | whistle | gerund | the wind not said here | past bye's ears | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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