The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 18
They all bowed so low to the little Queen that they almost stood upon their heads.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: bow, stand · To what, where: heads
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 (eyes), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bowed | nsubj |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 bowed | advmod |
| 3 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 low | advmod |
| 5 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bowed | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Queen | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Queen | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Queen | amod |
| 9 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 low | obl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 stood | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 stood | nsubj |
| 12 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 13 stood | advmod |
| 13 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bowed | advcl |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 heads | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 heads | nmod:poss |
| 16 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 stood | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | past | eyes = eye | low property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | eyes = eye | eyes's heads | almost property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon head=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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