The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 29

One by one the mice came creeping back, and Toto did not bark again, although he tried to get out of the Woodman’s arms, and would have bitten him had he not known very well he was made of tin.

Who acts: One mice, Toto, mouse · What happens: come, creep back, not bark, try, get out, bite · To what, where: arms, mouse · 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 (One mice, 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 mice	nummod
2	by	by	ADP	_	3 one	case
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 One	nmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mice	det
5	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	creeping	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 came	xcomp
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 creeping	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bark	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 bark	cc
11	Toto	Toto	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 bark	nsubj
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 bark	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 bark	advmod
14	bark	bark	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 came	conj
15	again	again	ADV	_	14 bark	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tried	punct
17	although	although	SCONJ	_	19 tried	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 tried	nsubj
19	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 bark	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 get	mark
21	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 tried	xcomp
22	out	out	ADP	_	27 arms	case
23	of	of	ADP	_	27 arms	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Woodman	det
25	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 arms	nmod:poss
26	’s	's	PART	_	25 Woodman	case
27	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 get	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 bitten	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 bitten	cc
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 bitten	aux
31	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 bitten	aux
32	bitten	bite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 had	advcl
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 bitten	obj
34	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	parataxis
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 known	nsubj:pass
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 known	advmod
37	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 had	xcomp
38	very	very	ADV	_	39 well	advmod
39	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	42 made	advmod
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 made	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 made	aux:pass
42	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 known	ccomp
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 tin	case
44	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 made	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the One mice				tree rules
2	creep back	gerund	the One mice not said here				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not bark	past · do-support	Toto		again		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	try	past	mouse				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	get out not said to happen	to-infinitive	mouse not said here	the Woodman's arms			tree rules
6	bite	would · perfect		mouse			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
7	have	past					tree rules
8	not know	participle · passive		mouse			tree rules
9	make	past · passive		mouse		of tin; well property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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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