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title: Uncle Henry sat upon the doorstep and looked anxiously at the sky, w… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: Uncle Henry sat upon the doorstep and looked anxiously at the sky, which was even grayer than usual. Who acts: Uncle Henry, sky. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter I. The Cyclone, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter I. The Cyclone, sentence 24

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Uncle Henry sat upon the doorstep and looked anxiously at the sky, which was even grayer than usual.

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**Who acts:** Uncle Henry, sky · **What happens:** sit, look, be · **To what, where:** doorstep

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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 (Uncle Henry, sky), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg55:2:24
# text = Uncle Henry sat upon the doorstep and looked anxiously at the sky, which was even grayer than usual.
1	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Henry	Henry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	doorstep	doorstep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	anxiously	anxiously	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	even	even	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	grayer	gray	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	conj	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | Uncle Henry |  |  | the doorstep |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon doorstep=Location |
| 2 | **look** | past | Uncle Henry *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the sky; anxiously *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sky=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | the sky |  |  |  |  | than usual; gray *property* | tree rules |

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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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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