--- title: It was, indeed, a great yellow Wildcat, and the Woodman thought it m… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: It was, indeed, a great yellow Wildcat, and the Woodman thought it must be chasing something, for its ears were lying close to its head and its mouth was wide open, showing two rows of ugly teeth, while its red eyes glowed like balls of fire. Who acts: head, Woodman, ears, lying. A sentence of «The --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/11/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Wonderful Wizard of Oz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/) / [Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/11/) / 3 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 3 It was, indeed, a great yellow Wildcat, and the Woodman thought it must be chasing something, for its ears were lying close to its head and its mouth was wide open, showing two rows of ugly teeth, while its red eyes glowed like balls of fire. **Who acts:** head, Woodman, ears, lying, red eyes · **What happens:** be, think, chase, lie, show, glow · **To what, where:** great yellow Wildcat, something, two rows · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (head, Woodman, ears, lying), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg55:11:3 # text = It was, indeed, a great yellow Wildcat, and the Woodman thought it must be chasing something, for its ears were lying close to its head and its mouth was wide open, showing two rows of ugly teeth, while its red eyes glowed like balls of fire. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 4 indeed indeed ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 Wildcat wildcat NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Woodman Woodman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 16 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 18 aux _ _ 18 chasing chase VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 ccomp _ _ 19 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 for for SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 22 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 24 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 lying lie VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 35 csubj _ _ 26 close close ADV RB Degree=Pos 25 advmod _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 34 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 advmod _ _ 35 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 showing show VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 conj _ _ 38 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 39 rows row NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obj _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 ugly ugly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 44 while while SCONJ IN _ 48 mark _ _ 45 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 47 nmod:poss _ _ 46 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 nsubj _ _ 48 glowed glow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 conj _ _ 49 like like ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 balls ball NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 obl _ _ 51 of of ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 52 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | head | a great yellow Wildcat | | | | indeed *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the Woodman | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **chase** | must · progressive | Woodman | something | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | | 4 | **lie** | past · progressive | Woodman's ears | | | | | to Woodman's head and head's mouth; close *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | past | lying | | | | | open *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **show** | gerund | Woodman *not said here* | two rows of ugly teeth | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent row=Recipient | | 7 | **glow** | participle | head's red eyes | | | | | like balls of fire | vn light\_emission-43.1 «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. - ← previous: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/11/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/11/4/) - ↑ back to [Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/11/)