The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 15

At that moment several mice were seen running up as fast as their little legs could carry them, and when they saw their Queen they exclaimed:

Who acts: several mice, little legs, legs · What happens: see, run up, carry, exclaim · To what, where: several mice, pieces, Queen

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (several mice, little legs, legs), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 moment	case
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 moment	det
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seen	obl
4	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mice	amod
5	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 seen	nsubj:pass
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 seen	aux:pass
7	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 exclaimed	parataxis
8	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 seen	xcomp
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 running	compound:prt
10	as	as	ADV	_	11 fast	advmod
11	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 running	advmod
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 carry	mark
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 legs	nmod:poss
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 legs	amod
15	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 carry	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 carry	aux
17	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 fast	advcl
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 carry	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 exclaimed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 exclaimed	cc
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 saw	advmod
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 saw	nsubj
23	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 exclaimed	advcl
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 Queen	nmod:poss
25	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 saw	obj
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 exclaimed	nsubj
27	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past · passive		several mice	moment		tree rules
2	run up	gerund	several mice not said here			fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	carry	could	pieces's little legs	pieces = piece			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	see	past	legs = leg	legs's Queen			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer queen=Stimulus
5	exclaim speech: express	past	legs = leg				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: 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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