The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 22
And then they scampered in all directions, for Toto had awakened from his sleep, and seeing all these mice around him he gave one bark of delight and jumped right into the middle of the group.
Who acts: ears, Toto, mouse · What happens: scamper, awaken, see, give, jump, sleep · To what, where: directions, sleep, mice, one bark, middle
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 (ears, Toto, mouse), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 scampered | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 scampered | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 scampered | nsubj |
| 4 | scampered | scamper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 directions | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 directions | det |
| 7 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 scampered | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 awakened | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 awakened | mark |
| 10 | Toto | Toto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 awakened | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 awakened | aux |
| 12 | awakened | awaken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 scampered | conj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 sleep | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 sleep | nmod:poss |
| 15 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 awakened | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 gave | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 gave | cc |
| 18 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 gave | csubj |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 mice | det:predet |
| 20 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 21 mice | det |
| 21 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 seeing | obj |
| 22 | around | around | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 seeing | obl |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 gave | nsubj |
| 25 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 scampered | parataxis |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 bark | nummod |
| 27 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 gave | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 delight | case |
| 29 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bark | nmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 jumped | cc |
| 31 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 gave | conj |
| 32 | right | right | ADV | _ | 35 middle | advmod |
| 33 | into | into | ADP | _ | 35 middle | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 middle | det |
| 35 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 jumped | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 group | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 group | det |
| 38 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 middle | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 scampered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scamper | past | ears = ear | all directions | then | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in direction=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | awaken | past · perfect | Toto | Toto's sleep | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | gerund | all mice | around mouse | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mouse=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | give | past | mouse | one bark of delight | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bark=Theme | ||||
| 5 | jump | past | mouse not said here | into the middle of the group result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into middle=Result | ||||
| 6 | sleep | Toto | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=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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