The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 58

Of course the truck was a thousand times bigger than any of the mice who were to draw it; but when all the mice had been harnessed, they were able to pull it quite easily.

Who acts: mice, thousands · What happens: be, draw, harness, pull · To what, where: truck, mice

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 (mice, thousands), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	4 truck	case
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Of	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 truck	det
4	truck	truck	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bigger	obl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 bigger	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 thousand	det
7	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 times	nummod
8	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 bigger	obl:unmarked
9	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
10	than	than	ADP	_	11 any	case
11	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 bigger	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 mice	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mice	det
14	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 any	nmod
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 draw	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 draw	aux
17	to	to	PART	_	18 draw	mark
18	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 mice	acl:relcl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 draw	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 harnessed	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 harnessed	cc
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 harnessed	advmod
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 mice	det:predet
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 mice	det
25	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 harnessed	nsubj:pass
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 harnessed	aux
27	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 harnessed	aux:pass
28	harnessed	harness	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 bigger	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 able	punct
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 able	nsubj
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 able	cop
32	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 harnessed	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 pull	mark
34	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 able	xcomp
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 pull	obj
36	quite	quite	ADV	_	37 easily	advmod
37	easily	easily	ADV	_	34 pull	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 bigger	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past			time	of the truck; than any; big property	tree rules
2	draw	past	the mice	truck			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	harness	past · perfect · passive		all mice			vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination
4	is	past	thousands = thousand			able property	tree rules
5	pull	to-infinitive	thousands = thousand not said here	truck		easily property	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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