The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 27

At this the Queen of the Mice stuck her head out from underneath a clump of grass and asked, in a timid voice, “Are you sure he will not bite us?”

Who acts: Mice, you, mouse · What happens: stick out, ask, be, not bite · To what, where: head, clump, timid voice, us · Speech: someone speaks here

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, you, 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 Queen	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 Queen	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Queen	det
4	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 stuck	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 Mice	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Mice	det
7	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 stuck	nsubj
8	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 head	nmod:poss
10	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stuck	obj
11	out	out	ADV	_	8 stuck	advmod
12	from	from	ADP	_	15 clump	case
13	underneath	underneath	ADV	_	15 clump	advmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 clump	det
15	clump	clump	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stuck	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 grass	case
17	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 clump	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 asked	cc
19	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stuck	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 voice	punct
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 voice	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 voice	det
23	timid	timid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 voice	amod
24	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 asked	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sure	punct
26	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 sure	punct
27	Are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 sure	cop
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 sure	nsubj
29	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 asked	ccomp
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 bite	nsubj
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 bite	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 bite	advmod
33	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 sure	ccomp
34	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 bite	obj
35	?	?	PUNCT	_	33 bite	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	29 sure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stick out	past	the Mice	Queen's head	a clump of grass	at the Queen; out property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination-Conative»: agent=Agent head=Theme at queen=Destination
2	ask speech: ask	past	the Mice not said here		a timid voice		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	you			sure property	tree rules
4	not bite in a quote	future	mouse	us			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient

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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