The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 91
The sky was darkened, and a low rumbling sound was heard in the air.
What happens: darken, hear · To what, where: sky, low rumbling sound, air
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: 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 | 2 sky | det |
| 2 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 darkened | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 darkened | aux:pass |
| 4 | darkened | darken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 heard | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 heard | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sound | det |
| 8 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sound | amod |
| 9 | rumbling | rumbling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sound | compound |
| 10 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 heard | aux:pass |
| 12 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 darkened | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 air | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 air | det |
| 15 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heard | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 darkened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | darken | past · passive | the sky | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | hear | past · passive | a low rumbling sound | the air | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
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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