The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 61

Then the Queen hurriedly gave her people the order to start, for she feared if the mice stayed among the poppies too long they also would fall asleep.

Who acts: Queen, mice, orders · What happens: give, start, fear, stay, fall · To what, where: order, people, poppies

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 (Queen, mice, orders), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 gave	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Queen	det
3	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 gave	nsubj
4	hurriedly	hurriedly	ADV	_	5 gave	advmod
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gave	iobj
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gave	iobj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 order	det
9	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 start	mark
11	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 order	acl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 feared	punct
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 feared	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 feared	nsubj
15	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gave	conj
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 stayed	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 mice	det
18	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 stayed	nsubj
19	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 feared	advcl
20	among	among	ADP	_	22 poppies	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 poppies	det
22	poppies	poppy	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 stayed	obl
23	too	too	ADV	_	24 long	advmod
24	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 stayed	advmod
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 fall	nsubj
26	also	also	ADV	_	28 fall	advmod
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 fall	aux
28	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 stayed	parataxis
29	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 fall	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the Queen	the order	people		then	hurriedly property	tree rules
2	start	to-infinitive	the Queen not said here	the order not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	fear	past	Queen						vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	stay a condition, not said to happen	past	the mice			the poppies		long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among poppy=Location
5	fall	would	orders = order					asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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