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title: Forthwith there was heard a great buzzing in the air, and a swarm of… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: Forthwith there was heard a great buzzing in the air, and a swarm of black bees came flying toward her. Who acts: swarm. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 56

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Forthwith there was heard a great buzzing in the air, and a swarm of black bees came flying toward her.

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**Who acts:** swarm · **What happens:** hear, come, fly · **To what, where:** great buzzing

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (swarm), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg55:926`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg55:14:56
# text = Forthwith there was heard a great buzzing in the air, and a swarm of black bees came flying toward her.
1	Forthwith	forthwith	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	buzzing	buzzing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	swarm	swarm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	xcomp	_	_
20	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past · passive |  | a great buzzing in the air |  | there |  | forthwith *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **come** | past | a swarm of black bees |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fly** | gerund | a swarm of black bees *not said here* |  |  |  |  | toward swarm | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward she=Trajectory |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Project Gutenberg book 55 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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