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title: In the middle of a cyclone the air is generally still, but the great… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: In the middle of a cyclone the air is generally still, but the great pressure of the wind on every side of the house raised it up higher and higher, until it was at the very top of the cyclone; and there it remained and was carried miles and miles away as easily as you could carry a feather. Who act
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter I. The Cyclone, sentence 45

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In the middle of a cyclone the air is generally still, but the great pressure of the wind on every side of the house raised it up higher and higher, until it was at the very top of the cyclone; and there it remained and was carried miles and miles away as easily as you could carry a feather.

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**Who acts:** air, great pressure, house, you · **What happens:** be, raise up, remain, carry, press · **To what, where:** house, top, miles, feather, wind

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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 (air, great pressure, house, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg55:2:45
# text = In the middle of a cyclone the air is generally still, but the great pressure of the wind on every side of the house raised it up higher and higher, until it was at the very top of the cyclone; and there it remained and was carried miles and miles away as easily as you could carry a feather.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cyclone	cyclone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	pressure	pressure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
29	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	xcomp	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
33	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
36	at	at	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	very	very	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	cyclone	cyclone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	47	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	47	advmod	_	_
46	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	parataxis	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
49	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux:pass	_	_
50	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	47	conj	_	_
51	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	obj	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	conj	_	_
54	away	away	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
55	as	as	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
56	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
57	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	60	mark	_	_
58	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	60	nsubj	_	_
59	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	60	aux	_	_
60	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	advcl	_	_
61	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the air |  |  |  |  | generally, still *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **raise up** | past | the great pressure of the wind on every side of the house | house |  |  |  | high *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | house |  |  | the top |  | of the cyclone | tree rules |
| 4 | **remain** | past | house |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **carry** | past · passive | house *not said here* | miles and miles |  |  |  | away, easily *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: mile=Theme |
| 6 | **carry** | could | you | a feather |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Theme |
| 7 | **press** |  |  | the wind on every side of the house |  |  |  |  | nom pressure «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**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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