The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 2

The Tin Woodman was about to reply when he heard a low growl, and turning his head (which worked beautifully on hinges) he saw a strange beast come bounding over the grass toward them.

Who acts: Tin Woodman, river, head, turning · What happens: be, reply, hear, turn, work, see · To what, where: low growl, strange beast, grass

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tin Woodman, river, head, turning), 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 Woodman	det
2	Tin	Tin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Woodman	compound
3	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 about	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 about	cop
5	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 reply	mark
7	reply	reply	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 about	xcomp
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 heard	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 heard	nsubj
10	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 reply	advcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 growl	det
12	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 growl	amod
13	growl	growl	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heard	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 come	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 come	cc
16	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 come	csubj
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 head	nmod:poss
18	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 saw	nsubj
19	(	(	PUNCT	_	21 worked	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 worked	nsubj
21	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 saw	parataxis
22	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	_	21 worked	advmod
23	on	on	ADP	_	24 hinges	case
24	hinges	hinge	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 worked	obl
25	)	)	PUNCT	_	21 worked	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 saw	nsubj
27	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 turning	ccomp
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 beast	det
29	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 beast	amod
30	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 saw	obj
31	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 about	parataxis
32	bounding	bound	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 come	xcomp
33	over	over	ADP	_	35 grass	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 grass	det
35	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bounding	obl
36	toward	toward	ADP	_	37 them	case
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 bounding	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 about	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Tin Woodman			about property	tree rules
2	reply speech: assert	to-infinitive	the Tin Woodman not said here				vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hear	past	river	a low growl			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer growl=Stimulus
4	turn	gerund					tree rules
5	work	past				on hinges; beautifully property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on hinge=Theme
6	see	past	river's head	a strange beast			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beast=Stimulus
7	come	present	turning				tree rules
8	bound	gerund	turning not said here		the grass	toward hinges = hinge	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over grass=Trajectory

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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