The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 17

Indeed, the Tin Woodman began to cry, but fortunately remembered that he might rust, and so dried his tears on Dorothy’s apron.

Who acts: Tin Woodman, Kansas · What happens: begin, cry, remember, rust, dry · To what, where: tears, apron · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tin Woodman, Kansas), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	6 began	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Indeed	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Woodman	det
4	Tin	Tin	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Woodman	compound
5	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 began	nsubj
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 cry	mark
8	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 began	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 remembered	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 remembered	cc
11	fortunately	fortunately	ADV	_	12 remembered	advmod
12	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 began	conj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 rust	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 rust	nsubj
15	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 rust	aux
16	rust	rust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 remembered	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 dried	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 dried	cc
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 dried	advmod
20	dried	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 began	conj
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 tears	nmod:poss
22	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 dried	obj
23	on	on	ADP	_	26 apron	case
24	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 apron	nmod:poss
25	’s	's	PART	_	24 Dorothy	case
26	apron	apron	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dried	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the Tin Woodman			indeed property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	the Tin Woodman not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	remember	past	the Tin Woodman not said here			fortunately property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	rust	might	Kansas				vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	dry	past	the Tin Woodman not said here	Kansas's tears	Dorothy's apron		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient tear=Result

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.

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