The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter I. The Cyclone, sentence 19

He was gray also, from his long beard to his rough boots, and he looked stern and solemn, and rarely spoke.

Who acts: Uncle · What happens: be, look, speak · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter I. The Cyclone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Uncle), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gray	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gray	cop
3	gray	gray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	also	also	ADV	_	3 gray	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 beard	punct
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 beard	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 beard	nmod:poss
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 beard	amod
9	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gray	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 boots	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 boots	nmod:poss
12	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 boots	amod
13	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 beard	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 looked	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 looked	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 looked	nsubj
17	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gray	parataxis
18	stern	stern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 looked	xcomp
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 solemn	cc
20	solemn	solemn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 stern	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 spoke	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 spoke	cc
23	rarely	rarely	ADV	_	24 spoke	advmod
24	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 looked	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gray	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	Uncle	gray property	tree rules
2	look	past	Uncle	stern property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	speak speech: other	past	Uncle not said here	rarely property	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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