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title: From the far north they heard a low wail of the wind, and Uncle Henr… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: From the far north they heard a low wail of the wind, and Uncle Henry and Dorothy could see where the long grass bowed in waves before the coming storm. Who acts: dishes, Uncle Henry, long grass, wind. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter I. The Cyclone, with its depe
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter I. The Cyclone, sentence 27

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From the far north they heard a low wail of the wind, and Uncle Henry and Dorothy could see where the long grass bowed in waves before the coming storm.

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**Who acts:** dishes, Uncle Henry, long grass, wind · **What happens:** hear, see, bow, come, wail · **To what, where:** low wail, far north, coming storm · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (dishes, Uncle Henry, long grass, wind), 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:pg55:2:27
# text = From the far north they heard a low wail of the wind, and Uncle Henry and Dorothy could see where the long grass bowed in waves before the coming storm.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	wail	wail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Henry	Henry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
21	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	25	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	bowed	bow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	ccomp	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl:agent	_	_
28	before	before	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	amod	_	_
31	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | dishes *= dish* | a low wail of the wind |  | the far north |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent wail=Topic from north=Source |
| 2 | **see** | could | Uncle Henry and Dorothy |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **bow** | participle | the long grass |  |  | the coming storm |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before storm=Location |
| 4 | **come** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **wail** |  | the wind |  |  |  |  |  | nom wail «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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