The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 70

“Good-bye!” they all answered, and away the Queen ran, while Dorothy held Toto tightly lest he should run after her and frighten her.

Who acts: fields, Queen, Dorothy, Toto · What happens: answer, run, hold, frighten · To what, where: Toto, Queen

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 (fields, Queen, Dorothy, Toto), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Good	punct
2	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 answered	ccomp
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Good	punct
4	bye	bye	INTJ	_	2 Good	flat
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Good	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Good	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 answered	nsubj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 answered	advmod
9	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ran	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 ran	cc
12	away	away	ADV	_	15 ran	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Queen	det
14	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 ran	nsubj
15	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 answered	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 held	punct
17	while	while	SCONJ	_	19 held	mark
18	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 held	nsubj
19	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 ran	conj
20	Toto	Toto	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 held	obj
21	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	25 run	advmod
22	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	25 run	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 run	nsubj
24	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 run	aux
25	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 held	advcl
26	after	after	ADP	_	27 her	case
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 run	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 frighten	cc
29	frighten	frighten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 run	conj
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 frighten	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	fields = field				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	run	past	the Queen			away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hold	past	Dorothy	Toto			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toto=Theme
4	run	should	Toto		after Queen	tightly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	frighten	infinitive	Toto not said here	Queen			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=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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