The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 66

Then the mice were unharnessed from the truck and scampered away through the grass to their homes.

What happens: unharness, scamper away · To what, where: mice, truck, grass

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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 unharnessed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mice	det
3	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 unharnessed	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 unharnessed	aux:pass
5	unharnessed	unharness	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 truck	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 truck	det
8	truck	truck	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 unharnessed	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 scampered	cc
10	scampered	scamper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 unharnessed	conj
11	away	away	ADV	_	10 scampered	advmod
12	through	through	ADP	_	14 grass	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 grass	det
14	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 scampered	obl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 homes	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 homes	nmod:poss
17	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 grass	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 unharnessed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	unharness	past · passive		the mice		the truck	then		tree rules
2	scamper away	participle				the grass to orders's homes		away property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through grass=Trajectory

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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