The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 49

So fast and so well did he work that by the time the mice began to arrive the truck was all ready for them.

Who acts: Lion, mice, truck · What happens: do, work, begin, arrive, be · To what, where: work

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 (Lion, mice, truck), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 fast	advmod
2	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 did	cc
4	so	so	ADV	_	6 did	advmod
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 did	advmod
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fast	conj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 work	nsubj
8	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	obj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 began	obj
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 time	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 time	det
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 began	obl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mice	det
14	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 began	nsubj
15	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 work	acl:relcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 arrive	mark
17	arrive	arrive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 began	xcomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 truck	det
19	truck	truck	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ready	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 ready	cop
21	all	all	ADV	_	22 ready	advmod
22	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 arrive	ccomp
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 ready	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fast	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	past				well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	work		Lion				tree rules
3	begin	past	the mice	work	time		tree rules
4	arrive	to-infinitive	the mice not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	the truck			for pieces = piece; all, ready property	tree rules

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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