The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 52

She was greatly astonished to find herself lying upon the grass, with thousands of mice standing around and looking at her timidly.

Who acts: Dorothy, mice · What happens: be, find, lie, stand around, look · To what, where: Dorothy, grass

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 (Dorothy, mice), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 astonished	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 astonished	cop
3	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	4 astonished	advmod
4	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 find	mark
6	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 astonished	xcomp
7	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 find	obj
8	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 find	xcomp
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 grass	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 grass	det
11	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lying	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 thousands	punct
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 thousands	case
14	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lying	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 mice	case
16	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 thousands	nmod
17	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 mice	acl
18	around	around	ADV	_	17 standing	advmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 looking	cc
20	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 standing	conj
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 her	case
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 looking	obl
23	timidly	timidly	ADV	_	20 looking	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 astonished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Dorothy			astonished, greatly property	tree rules
2	find	to-infinitive	Dorothy not said here	Dorothy			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent herself=Attribute clause=Theme
3	lie	gerund	Dorothy not said here		the grass	with thousands of mice	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon grass=Location
4	stand around	gerund	mice not said here			around property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	look	gerund	mice not said here			at Dorothy; timidly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=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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