The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter I. The Cyclone, sentence 30
“There’s a cyclone coming, Em,” he called to his wife.
Who acts: cyclone, Em · What happens: come, call · To what, where: Em, wife · 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 (cyclone, Em), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’s | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 ’s | expl |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 called | parataxis |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cyclone | det |
| 5 | cyclone | cyclone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ’s | obj |
| 6 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 cyclone | acl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Em | punct |
| 8 | Em | Em | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 coming | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Em | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’s | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 called | nsubj |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 wife | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 wife | nmod:poss |
| 15 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 called | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | gerund | a cyclone not said here | Em | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location em=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call speech: assert | past | Em | Em's wife | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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