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title: Of course the truck was a thousand times bigger than any of the mice… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: Of course the truck was a thousand times bigger than any of the mice who were to draw it; but when all the mice had been harnessed, they were able to pull it quite easily. Who acts: mice, thousands. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice,
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 58

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Of course the truck was a thousand times bigger than any of the mice who were to draw it; but when all the mice had been harnessed, they were able to pull it quite easily.

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**Who acts:** mice, thousands · **What happens:** be, draw, harness, pull · **To what, where:** truck, mice

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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 (mice, thousands), 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:pg55:11:58
# text = Of course the truck was a thousand times bigger than any of the mice who were to draw it; but when all the mice had been harnessed, they were able to pull it quite easily.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	truck	truck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
22	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
23	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	25	det:predet	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	harnessed	harness	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  | time | of the truck; than any; big *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **draw** | past | the mice | truck |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **harness** | past · perfect · passive |  | all mice |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
| 4 | **is** | past | thousands *= thousand* |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **pull** | to-infinitive | thousands *= thousand* *not said here* | truck |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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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