The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 40

The next moment it seemed as if she were flying through the air; and then, before she had time to think about it, she was safe on the other side.

Who acts: next moment, Dorothy · What happens: seem, fly, have, think, be · To what, where: air, other side

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (next moment, Dorothy), 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	3 moment	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 moment	amod
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seemed	nsubj
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 seemed	nsubj
5	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 flying	mark
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 flying	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 flying	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 flying	aux
10	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 seemed	xcomp
11	through	through	ADP	_	13 air	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 air	det
13	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flying	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 had	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 then	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 had	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 had	punct
18	before	before	SCONJ	_	20 had	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seemed	parataxis
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 had	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 think	mark
23	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 time	acl
24	about	about	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 think	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 safe	punct
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 safe	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 safe	cop
29	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 had	conj
30	on	on	ADP	_	33 side	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 side	det
32	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 side	amod
33	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 safe	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	the next moment				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	fly a condition, not said to happen	past · progressive	Dorothy	the air			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent through air=Location
3	have	past	Dorothy		then; time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	think speech: other	to-infinitive	Dorothy not said here			about air	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic
5	is	past	Dorothy	the other side		safe property	tree rules

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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