The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 4

As it came nearer the Tin Woodman saw that running before the beast was a little gray field mouse, and although he had no heart he knew it was wrong for the Wildcat to try to kill such a pretty, harmless creature.

Who acts: head, Tin Woodman, running, mouse · What happens: come, see, run, be, have, know · To what, where: beast, little field mouse, heart, harmless creature · 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, Tin Woodman, running, 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 came	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 saw	advcl
4	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 came	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Woodman	det
6	Tin	Tin	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Woodman	compound
7	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 mouse	mark
10	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 mouse	csubj
11	before	before	ADP	_	13 beast	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 beast	det
13	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 running	obl
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 mouse	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 mouse	det
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 mouse	amod
17	gray	gray	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 field	compound
18	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 mouse	compound
19	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saw	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 had	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 had	cc
22	although	although	SCONJ	_	24 had	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 had	nsubj
24	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 saw	conj
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 heart	det
26	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 had	obj
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 knew	nsubj
28	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 had	parataxis
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 wrong	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 wrong	cop
31	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 knew	ccomp
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 Wildcat	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Wildcat	det
34	Wildcat	wildcat	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 knew	obl
35	to	to	PART	_	36 try	mark
36	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 knew	advcl
37	to	to	PART	_	38 kill	mark
38	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 try	xcomp
39	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	44 creature	det:predet
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 creature	det
41	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	43 harmless	advmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 pretty	punct
43	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 creature	amod
44	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 kill	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	head			near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	the Tin Woodman				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	run	gerund			the beast		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before beast=Trajectory
4	is a	past	running	a little field mouse			tree rules
5	have	past	mouse	no heart			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient
6	know	past	mouse			for the Wildcat	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	is	past	head			wrong property	tree rules
8	try	to-infinitive	mouse not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
9	kill not said to happen	to-infinitive	mouse not said here	such harmless creature			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=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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