The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 50

They came from all directions, and there were thousands of them: big mice and little mice and middle-sized mice; and each one brought a piece of string in his mouth.

Who acts: pieces, thousands, one · What happens: come, be, size, bring · To what, where: directions, piece, mouth

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, thousands, one), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 directions	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 directions	det
5	directions	direction	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 came	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 were	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 were	cc
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 were	expl
9	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
10	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 were	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 thousands	nmod
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 mice	punct
14	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 mice	amod
15	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 thousands	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 mice	cc
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 mice	amod
18	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 mice	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 mice	cc
20	middle	middle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 sized	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 middle	punct
22	sized	size	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 mice	amod
23	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 mice	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 brought	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 brought	cc
26	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	27 one	det
27	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 brought	nsubj
28	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 piece	det
30	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 brought	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 string	case
32	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 piece	nmod
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 mouth	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 mouth	nmod:poss
35	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 brought	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come	past	pieces = piece		all directions	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from direction=Initial_Location
2	be	past	thousands of pieces big mice and little mice and sized mice		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	size	participle				tree rules
4	bring	past	each one	a piece of string	mouse's mouth	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent piece=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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