The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 6
The cyclone had set the house down very gently—for a cyclone—in the midst of a country of marvelous beauty.
What happens: set down · To what, where: cyclone
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 cyclone | det |
| 2 | cyclone | cyclone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | aux |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | obj |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 set | compound:prt |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 gently | advmod |
| 9 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 4 set | advmod |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 cyclone | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 cyclone | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 cyclone | det |
| 13 | cyclone | cyclone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | conj |
| 14 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 midst | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 midst | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 midst | det |
| 17 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cyclone | appos |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 country | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 country | det |
| 20 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 midst | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 beauty | case |
| 22 | marvelous | marvelous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 beauty | amod |
| 23 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 country | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set down | past · perfect · passive | the cyclone | gently property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme house=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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