The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 27

So he sprang into the water, and the Tin Woodman caught fast hold of his tail.

Who acts: use, Tin Woodman · What happens: spring, catch, hold · To what, where: water, fast hold, tail

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 (use, Tin Woodman), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 sprang	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sprang	nsubj
3	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 water	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 water	det
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sprang	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 caught	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 caught	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Woodman	det
10	Tin	Tin	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Woodman	compound
11	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 caught	nsubj
12	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sprang	conj
13	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hold	amod
14	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 caught	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 tail	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 tail	nmod:poss
17	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hold	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sprang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	spring	past	use		the water	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into water=Destination
2	catch	past	the Tin Woodman	fast hold of use's tail		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
3	hold			use's tail		nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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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