The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 62

At first the little creatures, many though they were, could hardly stir the heavily loaded truck; but the Woodman and the Scarecrow both pushed from behind, and they got along better.

Who acts: orders, Woodman · What happens: stir, load, push, get along · To what, where: loaded truck

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 (orders, Woodman), 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	At	at	ADP	_	5 creatures	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 creatures	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 creatures	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 creatures	amod
5	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 many	punct
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 creatures	amod
8	though	though	SCONJ	_	14 stir	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 stir	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 stir	aux
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 stir	punct
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 stir	aux
13	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	14 stir	advmod
14	stir	stir	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 many	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 truck	det
16	heavily	heavily	ADV	_	17 loaded	advmod
17	loaded	load	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 truck	amod
18	truck	truck	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stir	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 pushed	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 pushed	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Woodman	det
22	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 pushed	nsubj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 Scarecrow	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Scarecrow	det
25	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Woodman	conj
26	both	both	ADV	_	27 pushed	advmod
27	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 creatures	parataxis
28	from	from	ADP	_	29 behind	case
29	behind	behind	ADV	_	27 pushed	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 got	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 got	cc
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 got	nsubj
33	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 pushed	conj
34	along	along	ADV	_	33 got	advmod
35	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 got	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 creatures	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stir	could · past	orders = order	the loaded truck	hardly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus truck=Experiencer
2	load	participle			heavily property	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	push	past	the Woodman and the Scarecrow		both property	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from behind=Co-Patient
4	get along	past	orders = order		along, good property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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