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title: The field mouse, now that it was freed from its enemy, stopped short… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: The field mouse, now that it was freed from its enemy, stopped short; and coming slowly up to the Woodman it said, in a squeaky little voice: Who acts: field mouse, head. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, with its dependency tree an
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 6

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The field mouse, now that it was freed from its enemy, stopped short; and coming slowly up to the Woodman it said, in a squeaky little voice:

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**Who acts:** field mouse, head · **What happens:** free, stop, come, say · **To what, where:** head, enemy, Woodman, squeaky little voice · **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 (field mouse, head), 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:pg55:11:6
# text = The field mouse, now that it was freed from its enemy, stopped short; and coming slowly up to the Woodman it said, in a squeaky little voice:
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	freed	free	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
18	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	ccomp	_	_
19	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	squeaky	squeaky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **free** | past · passive | the field mouse *not said here* | head |  | head's enemy | now |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Source |
| 2 | **stop** | past | the field mouse |  |  |  |  | short *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **come** | gerund |  |  |  | the Woodman |  | slowly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme up woodman=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | head |  |  | a squeaky little voice |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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