The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 57
One end of a string was tied around the neck of each mouse and the other end to the truck.
What happens: tie · To what, where: One end, neck
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: 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 end | nummod |
| 2 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tied | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 string | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 string | det |
| 5 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 end | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 tied | aux:pass |
| 7 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | around | around | ADP | _ | 10 neck | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 neck | det |
| 10 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tied | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 mouse | case |
| 12 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 mouse | det |
| 13 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 neck | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 end | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 end | det |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 end | amod |
| 17 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mouse | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 truck | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 truck | det |
| 20 | truck | truck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 end | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 tied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tie | past · passive | One end of a string | the neck of each mouse and the other end to the truck | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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