The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 4

But the raft was nearly done, and after the Tin Woodman had cut a few more logs and fastened them together with wooden pins, they were ready to start.

Who acts: logs · What happens: do, cut, fasten, be, start · To what, where: raft, Tin Woodman, logs

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 (logs), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 done	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 raft	det
3	raft	raft	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 done	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 done	aux:pass
5	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	6 done	advmod
6	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cut	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 cut	cc
9	after	after	SCONJ	_	14 cut	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Woodman	det
11	Tin	Tin	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Woodman	compound
12	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 cut	nsubj:pass
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 cut	aux
14	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 done	parataxis
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 logs	det
16	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 logs	amod
17	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 logs	amod
18	logs	log	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 cut	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 fastened	cc
20	fastened	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 cut	conj
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 fastened	obj
22	together	together	ADV	_	20 fastened	advmod
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 pins	case
24	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 pins	amod
25	pins	pin	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 fastened	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 ready	punct
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 ready	nsubj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 ready	cop
29	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 done	advcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 start	mark
31	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 ready	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past · passive		the raft	nearly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	cut	past · perfect · passive		the Tin Woodman		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary log=Product
3	fasten	past		logs = log	with wooden pins; together property	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent they=Patient with pin=Co-Patient
4	is	past	logs = log		ready property	tree rules
5	start	to-infinitive	logs = log not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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