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title: One by one the mice came creeping back, and Toto did not bark again,… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: One by one the mice came creeping back, and Toto did not bark again, although he tried to get out of the Woodman’s arms, and would have bitten him had he not known very well he was made of tin. Who acts: One mice, Toto, mouse. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IX. 
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 29

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One by one the mice came creeping back, and Toto did not bark again, although he tried to get out of the Woodman’s arms, and would have bitten him had he not known very well he was made of tin.

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**Who acts:** One mice, Toto, mouse · **What happens:** come, creep back, not bark, try, get out, bite · **To what, where:** arms, mouse · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (One mice, Toto, mouse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg55:11:29
# text = One by one the mice came creeping back, and Toto did not bark again, although he tried to get out of the Woodman’s arms, and would have bitten him had he not known very well he was made of tin.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	nmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	creeping	creep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
8	back	back	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	Toto	Toto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	bark	bark	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
15	again	again	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’s	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	aux	_	_
32	bitten	bite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	34	advcl	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
37	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	xcomp	_	_
38	very	very	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	42	advmod	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
41	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux:pass	_	_
42	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	ccomp	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the One mice |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **creep back** | gerund | the One mice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **bark** | past · do-support | Toto |  |  |  | again |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **try** | past | mouse |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **get out** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | mouse *not said here* | the Woodman's arms |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **bite** | would · perfect |  | mouse |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 7 | **have** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **not** **know** | participle · passive |  | mouse |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **make** | past · passive |  | mouse |  |  |  | of tin; well *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

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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.

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**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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