The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 3

It was, indeed, a great yellow Wildcat, and the Woodman thought it must be chasing something, for its ears were lying close to its head and its mouth was wide open, showing two rows of ugly teeth, while its red eyes glowed like balls of fire.

Who acts: head, Woodman, ears, lying, red eyes · What happens: be, think, chase, lie, show, glow · To what, where: great yellow Wildcat, something, two rows · 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 (head, Woodman, ears, lying), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 Wildcat	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 Wildcat	cop
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Wildcat	punct
4	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	9 Wildcat	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Wildcat	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 Wildcat	det
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Wildcat	amod
8	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Wildcat	amod
9	Wildcat	wildcat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 thought	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 thought	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Woodman	det
13	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 thought	nsubj
14	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 Wildcat	parataxis
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 chasing	nsubj
16	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 chasing	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 chasing	aux
18	chasing	chase	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 thought	ccomp
19	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	18 chasing	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 lying	punct
21	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 lying	mark
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 ears	nmod:poss
23	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 lying	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 lying	aux
25	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 open	csubj
26	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 lying	advmod
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 head	case
28	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 head	nmod:poss
29	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lying	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 mouth	cc
31	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 mouth	nmod:poss
32	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 head	conj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 open	cop
34	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 open	advmod
35	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 chasing	parataxis
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 showing	punct
37	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 chasing	conj
38	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 rows	nummod
39	rows	row	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 showing	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 teeth	case
41	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 teeth	amod
42	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 rows	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 glowed	punct
44	while	while	SCONJ	_	48 glowed	mark
45	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 eyes	nmod:poss
46	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 eyes	amod
47	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 glowed	nsubj
48	glowed	glow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 thought	conj
49	like	like	ADP	_	50 balls	case
50	balls	ball	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 glowed	obl
51	of	of	ADP	_	52 fire	case
52	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 balls	nmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 Wildcat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	head	a great yellow Wildcat	indeed property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	the Woodman			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	chase	must · progressive	Woodman	something		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme
4	lie	past · progressive	Woodman's ears		to Woodman's head and head's mouth; close property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	lying		open property	tree rules
6	show	gerund	Woodman not said here	two rows of ugly teeth		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent row=Recipient
7	glow	participle	head's red eyes		like balls of fire	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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