The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter I. The Cyclone, sentence 27

From the far north they heard a low wail of the wind, and Uncle Henry and Dorothy could see where the long grass bowed in waves before the coming storm.

Who acts: dishes, Uncle Henry, long grass, wind · What happens: hear, see, bow, come, wail · To what, where: low wail, far north, coming storm · 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 (dishes, Uncle Henry, long grass, wind), 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	From	from	ADP	_	4 north	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 north	det
3	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 north	amod
4	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heard	obl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 heard	nsubj
6	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 wail	det
8	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wail	amod
9	wail	wail	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heard	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 wind	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wind	det
12	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wail	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 see	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 see	cc
15	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Henry	compound
16	Henry	Henry	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 see	nsubj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 Dorothy	cc
18	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Henry	conj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 see	aux
20	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 heard	conj
21	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	25 bowed	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 grass	det
23	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 grass	amod
24	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bowed	nsubj
25	bowed	bow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 see	ccomp
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 waves	case
27	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 bowed	obl:agent
28	before	before	ADP	_	31 storm	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 storm	det
30	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 storm	amod
31	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bowed	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hear	past	dishes = dish	a low wail of the wind	the far north	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent wail=Topic from north=Source
2	see	could	Uncle Henry and Dorothy			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	bow	participle	the long grass		the coming storm	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before storm=Location
4	come	gerund				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	wail		the wind			nom wail «communication intransitive»: of=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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