The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter I. The Cyclone, sentence 24

Uncle Henry sat upon the doorstep and looked anxiously at the sky, which was even grayer than usual.

Who acts: Uncle Henry, sky · What happens: sit, look, be · To what, where: doorstep

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 Henry, sky), 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	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Henry	compound
2	Henry	Henry	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 doorstep	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 doorstep	det
6	doorstep	doorstep	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 looked	cc
8	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
9	anxiously	anxiously	ADV	_	8 looked	advmod
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 sky	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sky	det
12	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 looked	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 grayer	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 grayer	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 grayer	cop
16	even	even	ADV	_	17 grayer	advmod
17	grayer	gray	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 sky	conj
18	than	than	ADP	_	19 usual	case
19	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 grayer	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	Uncle Henry	the doorstep		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon doorstep=Location
2	look	past	Uncle Henry not said here		at the sky; anxiously property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sky=Theme
3	is	past	the sky		than usual; gray property	tree rules

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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