The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 14

Just then another groan reached their ears, and the sound seemed to come from behind them.

Who acts: groan, sound · What happens: reach, seem, come · To what, where: ears

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (groan, sound), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	5 reached	advmod
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 reached	advmod
3	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	4 groan	det
4	groan	groan	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reached	nsubj
5	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 ears	nmod:poss
7	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 reached	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 seemed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 seemed	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sound	det
11	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seemed	nsubj
12	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reached	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 come	mark
14	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 seemed	xcomp
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 them	case
16	behind	behind	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 come	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	reach	past	another groan	brains's ears	then		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ear=Theme
2	seem	past	the sound				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	come	to-infinitive	the sound not said here			from ears = ear	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from they=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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