The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 45
As soon as they heard her orders they ran away in every direction as fast as possible.
Who acts: pieces, Queen · What happens: hear, run away, order · To what, where: orders, direction
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 (pieces, Queen), 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 | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 heard | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 heard | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 orders | nmod:poss |
| 7 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 heard | obj |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 ran | nsubj |
| 9 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | conj |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 ran | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 direction | case |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 direction | det |
| 13 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ran | obl |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 fast | advmod |
| 15 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 ran | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 possible | mark |
| 17 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fast | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | pieces = piece | Queen's orders | soon property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer order=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | run away | past | pieces = piece | every direction | away, fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in direction=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | order | Queen | nom order «communication transitive»: 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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