The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings, sentence 4
They had nearly reached the first rock when they heard a rough voice cry out, “Keep back!”
Who acts: others, rough voice · What happens: reach, hear, cry out, keep back · To what, where: first rock, rough voice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others, rough voice), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reached | aux |
| 3 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 4 reached | advmod |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rock | det |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 rock | amod |
| 7 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obj |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 heard | advmod |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 heard | nsubj |
| 10 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reached | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 voice | det |
| 12 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 voice | amod |
| 13 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heard | obj |
| 14 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 heard | xcomp |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 cry | compound:prt |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Keep | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Keep | punct |
| 18 | Keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 cry | conj |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 Keep | advmod |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past · perfect | others = other | the first rock | nearly property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent rock=Theme | |||
| 2 | hear | past | others = other | a rough voice | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cry out speech: express | infinitive | a rough voice not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | keep back in a quote | infinitive | a rough voice not said here | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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