--- title: As it came nearer the Tin Woodman saw that running before the beast… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: As it came nearer the Tin Woodman saw that running before the beast was a little gray field mouse, and although he had no heart he knew it was wrong for the Wildcat to try to kill such a pretty, harmless creature. Who acts: head, Tin Woodman, running, mouse. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/11/4/) [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/) / 4 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 4 As it came nearer the Tin Woodman saw that running before the beast was a little gray field mouse, and although he had no heart he knew it was wrong for the Wildcat to try to kill such a pretty, harmless creature. **Who acts:** head, Tin Woodman, running, mouse · **What happens:** come, see, run, be, have, know · **To what, where:** beast, little field mouse, heart, harmless creature · **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, Tin Woodman, running, mouse), 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:pg55:11:4 # text = As it came nearer the Tin Woodman saw that running before the beast was a little gray field mouse, and although he had no heart he knew it was wrong for the Wildcat to try to kill such a pretty, harmless creature. 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 4 nearer near ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 xcomp _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 Tin Tin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 Woodman Woodman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 that that SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 10 running run VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 csubj _ _ 11 before before ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 beast beast NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 16 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 17 gray gray NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 although although SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 25 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 26 det _ _ 26 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 parataxis _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 31 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 ccomp _ _ 32 for for ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 Wildcat wildcat NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 try try VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 39 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 44 det:predet _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 41 pretty pretty ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 43 harmless harmless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 creature creature NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | head | | | | | near *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **see** | past | the Tin Woodman | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **run** | gerund | | | | the beast | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before beast=Trajectory | | 4 | **is a** | past | running | a little field mouse | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **have** | past | mouse | no heart | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | | 6 | **know** | past | mouse | | | | | for the Wildcat | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **is** | past | head | | | | | wrong *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **try** | to-infinitive | mouse *not said here* | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 9 | **kill** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | mouse *not said here* | such harmless creature | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/11/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/11/5/) - ↑ back to [Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/11/)