The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts, sentence 17

Before they had gone far they heard a low rumble, as of the growling of many wild animals.

Who acts: Woodman, many wild animals · What happens: go, hear, growl · To what, where: low rumble

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Woodman, many wild animals), 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	4 gone	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 heard	advmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 heard	nsubj
7	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 rumble	det
9	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 rumble	amod
10	rumble	rumble	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heard	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 growling	punct
12	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	15 growling	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	12 as	fixed
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 growling	det
15	growling	growling	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heard	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 animals	case
17	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 animals	amod
18	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 animals	amod
19	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 growling	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	Woodman			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hear	past	Woodman	a low rumble	as the growling of many wild animals; far property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer rumble=Stimulus
3	growl		many wild animals			nom growling «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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