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title: There was no garret at all, and no cellar—except a small hole dug in… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: There was no garret at all, and no cellar—except a small hole dug in the ground, called a cyclone cellar, where the family could go in case one of those great whirlwinds arose, mighty enough to crush any building in its path. Who acts: garret, small hole, family, great whirlwinds. A sentence of «The
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter I. The Cyclone, sentence 5

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There was no garret at all, and no cellar—except a small hole dug in the ground, called a cyclone cellar, where the family could go in case one of those great whirlwinds arose, mighty enough to crush any building in its path.

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**Who acts:** garret, small hole, family, great whirlwinds · **What happens:** be, dig, call, go, arise, crush · **To what, where:** cellar, small hole, ground, cyclone cellar, building, path · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (garret, small hole, family, great whirlwinds), 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:pg55:2:5
# text = There was no garret at all, and no cellar—except a small hole dug in the ground, called a cyclone cellar, where the family could go in case one of those great whirlwinds arose, mighty enough to crush any building in its path.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	garret	garret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	cellar	cellar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	except	except	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
16	dug	dig	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	cyclone	cyclone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	cellar	cellar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	30	advmod	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	parataxis	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	33	case	_	_
32	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	fixed	_	_
33	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	37	det	_	_
36	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	whirlwinds	whirlwind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
38	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	parataxis	_	_
41	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	crush	crush	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	advcl	_	_
44	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	45	det	_	_
45	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | no garret at all | no cellar and a small hole |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **dig** | participle |  | a small hole *not said here* |  | the ground |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in ground=Location |
| 3 | **call** | participle | a small hole *not said here* | a cyclone cellar |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **go** | could | the family |  |  |  |  | in one | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in one=Location |
| 5 | **arise** | past | that great whirlwinds |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **crush** | to-infinitive | no garret at all *not said here* | any building |  | family's path |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent building=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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