The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 56
Forthwith there was heard a great buzzing in the air, and a swarm of black bees came flying toward her.
Who acts: swarm · What happens: hear, come, fly · To what, where: great buzzing
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (swarm), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg55:926): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Forthwith | forthwith | ADV | _ | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 heard | expl |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | aux:pass |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 buzzing | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 buzzing | amod |
| 7 | buzzing | buzzing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 air | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 air | det |
| 10 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 buzzing | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 came | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 swarm | det |
| 14 | swarm | swarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 bees | case |
| 16 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 bees | amod |
| 17 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 swarm | nmod |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 19 | flying | fly | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 came | xcomp |
| 20 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 21 her | case |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 flying | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · passive | a great buzzing in the air | there | forthwith property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | come | past | a swarm of black bees | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fly | gerund | a swarm of black bees not said here | toward swarm | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward she=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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