The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 21

“We will!” cried all the mice, in a shrill chorus.

Who acts: mice · What happens: cry · To what, where: shrill chorus

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 (mice), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 will	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 cried	aux
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 will	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 will	punct
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 mice	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mice	det
9	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cried	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 chorus	punct
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 chorus	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 chorus	det
13	shrill	shrill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 chorus	amod
14	chorus	chorus	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	future	all mice			a shrill chorus			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in chorus=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/11/21/