The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 161
Then a low, quiet voice came from the Ball of Fire, and these were the words it spoke:
Who acts: low quiet voice, these, words · What happens: come, be, speak · To what, where: Ball, words · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (low quiet voice, these, words), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 came | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 voice | det |
| 3 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 voice | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 low | punct |
| 5 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 voice | amod |
| 6 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 Ball | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Ball | det |
| 10 | Ball | Ball | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Fire | case |
| 12 | Fire | Fire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Ball | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 spoke | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 spoke | cc |
| 15 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 18 words | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 words | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 words | det |
| 18 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 spoke | nsubj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 spoke | nsubj |
| 20 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | parataxis |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a low quiet voice | the Ball of Fire | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from ball=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | is a | past | these | the words | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | the words | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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