The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 56

The Scarecrow and the Woodman now began to fasten the mice to the truck, using the strings they had brought.

Who acts: Scarecrow, strings · What happens: begin, fasten, use, bring · To what, where: mice, strings, thousands

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 (Scarecrow, strings), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Scarecrow	det
2	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 began	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Woodman	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Woodman	det
5	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Scarecrow	conj
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 began	advmod
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 fasten	mark
9	fasten	fasten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 began	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mice	det
11	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fasten	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 truck	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 truck	det
14	truck	truck	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fasten	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 using	punct
16	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 began	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 strings	det
18	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 using	obj
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 brought	nsubj:pass
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 brought	aux
21	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 strings	acl:relcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the Scarecrow and the Woodman		now		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	fasten	to-infinitive	the Scarecrow and the Woodman not said here	the mice		to the truck	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent mouse=Patient to truck=Co-Patient
3	use	gerund	the Scarecrow and the Woodman not said here	the strings			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=Patient
4	bring	past · perfect · passive	the strings not said here	thousands = thousand			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=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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