--- title: At first she had wondered if she would be dashed to pieces when the… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: At first she had wondered if she would be dashed to pieces when the house fell again; but as the hours passed and nothing terrible happened, she stopped worrying and resolved to wait calmly and see what the future would bring. Who acts: wind, house, nothing, future. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wiza --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/2/54/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Wonderful Wizard of Oz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/) / [Chapter I. The Cyclone](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/2/) / 54 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter I. The Cyclone, sentence 54 At first she had wondered if she would be dashed to pieces when the house fell again; but as the hours passed and nothing terrible happened, she stopped worrying and resolved to wait calmly and see what the future would bring. **Who acts:** wind, house, nothing, future · **What happens:** wonder, dash, fall, pass, happen, stop · **To what, where:** wind · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (wind, house, nothing, future), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg55:2:54 # text = At first she had wondered if she would be dashed to pieces when the house fell again; but as the hours passed and nothing terrible happened, she stopped worrying and resolved to wait calmly and see what the future would bring. 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 5 obl _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 wondered wonder VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 if if SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 7 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 8 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 dashed dash VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 advcl _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 13 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 17 again again ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 as as ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 23 passed pass VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 27 nsubj _ _ 26 terrible terrible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 27 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 31 worrying worry VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 xcomp _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 resolved resolve VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 36 calmly calmly ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 conj _ _ 39 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 43 obj _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 future future NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 42 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 43 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | past · perfect | wind | | | | | | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **dash** *a condition, not said to happen* | would · passive | | wind | | | | to pieces *result* | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to piece=Result | | 3 | **fall** | past | the house | | | | again | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **pass** | past | | | | | hour | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **happen** | past | nothing | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **stop** | past | wind | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **worry** | gerund | wind *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 8 | **resolve** | past | wind *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **wait** | to-infinitive | wind *not said here* | | | | | calmly *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 10 | **see** | infinitive | wind *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 11 | **bring** | would | the future | | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent what=Theme | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/2/53/) - next →: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/2/55/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I. The Cyclone](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/2/)