The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish, sentence 57

For she was sitting on the broad Kansas prairie, and just before her was the new farmhouse Uncle Henry built after the cyclone had carried away the old one.

Who acts: bye, Uncle · What happens: sit, be, build, carry away · To what, where: broad Kansas prairie, new farmhouse, cyclone

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, Uncle), 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	For	for	SCONJ	_	4 sitting	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sitting	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sitting	aux
4	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	9 prairie	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 prairie	det
7	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 prairie	amod
8	Kansas	Kansas	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 prairie	compound
9	prairie	prairie	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sitting	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 farmhouse	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 farmhouse	cc
12	just	just	ADV	_	18 farmhouse	advmod
13	before	before	SCONJ	_	18 farmhouse	mark
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 farmhouse	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 farmhouse	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 farmhouse	det
17	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 farmhouse	amod
18	farmhouse	farmhouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sitting	obl
19	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 built	nsubj
20	Henry	Henry	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Uncle	flat
21	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 farmhouse	acl:relcl
22	after	after	SCONJ	_	26 carried	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 cyclone	det
24	cyclone	cyclone	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 carried	nsubj:pass
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 carried	aux
26	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 built	advcl
27	away	away	ADV	_	26 carried	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 one	det
29	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 one	amod
30	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 carried	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	bye		the broad Kansas prairie		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on prairie=Location
2	is a	past	bye	the new farmhouse			tree rules
3	build	past	Uncle	the new farmhouse not said here			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farmhouse=Product
4	carry away	past · perfect · passive		the cyclone		away property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary one=Value

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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