The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 30
Presently they heard a solemn Voice, that seemed to come from somewhere near the top of the great dome, and it said:
Who acts: travelers, solemn Voice, Voice · What happens: hear, seem, come, say · To what, where: solemn Voice, top · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (travelers, solemn Voice, Voice), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Voice | det |
| 5 | solemn | solemn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Voice | amod |
| 6 | Voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 seemed | punct |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 seemed | nsubj |
| 9 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Voice | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 come | mark |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 seemed | xcomp |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 somewhere | case |
| 13 | somewhere | somewhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 11 come | obl |
| 14 | near | near | ADP | _ | 16 top | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 top | det |
| 16 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 come | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 dome | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 dome | det |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 dome | amod |
| 20 | dome | dome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 top | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 said | cc |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 said | nsubj |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | parataxis |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | travelers = traveler | a solemn Voice | presently property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | seem | past | a solemn Voice | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | come | to-infinitive | a solemn Voice not said here | the top of the great dome | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from somewhere=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Voice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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