The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter I. The Cyclone, sentence 28

There now came a sharp whistling in the air from the south, and as they turned their eyes that way they saw ripples in the grass coming from that direction also.

Who acts: sharp whistling, dishes, grass · What happens: come, turn, see · To what, where: air, eyes, ripples, grass, direction

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 (sharp whistling, dishes, grass), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 came	expl
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 came	advmod
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 whistling	det
5	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 whistling	amod
6	whistling	whistling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 air	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 air	det
9	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 south	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 south	det
12	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 turned	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 turned	cc
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 turned	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 turned	nsubj
17	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 eyes	nmod:poss
19	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 turned	obj
20	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 way	det
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 turned	xcomp
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 saw	nsubj
23	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 way	acl:relcl
24	ripples	ripple	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 saw	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 grass	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 grass	det
27	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 saw	obl
28	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 grass	acl
29	from	from	ADP	_	31 direction	case
30	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 direction	det
31	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 coming	obl
32	also	also	ADV	_	28 coming	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	a sharp whistling		the air; there	now	from the south	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from south=Initial_Location
2	turn	past	dishes = dish	dishes's eyes				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
3	see	past	dishes = dish	ripples	the grass			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ripple=Stimulus
4	come	gerund	the grass not said here		that direction			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from direction=Initial_Location

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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