The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 47

So the Woodman went at once to the trees and began to work; and he soon made a truck out of the limbs of trees, from which he chopped away all the leaves and branches.

Who acts: Woodman, Lion · What happens: go, begin, work, make, chop away · To what, where: trees, truck, limbs, leaves

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 (Woodman, Lion), 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	_	4 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Woodman	det
3	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 went	obl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 trees	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 trees	det
9	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 began	cc
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 work	mark
13	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 began	xcomp
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 made	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 made	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 made	nsubj
17	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 made	advmod
18	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	parataxis
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 truck	det
20	truck	truck	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	obj
21	out	out	ADP	_	24 limbs	case
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 limbs	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 limbs	det
24	limbs	limb	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 made	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 trees	case
26	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 limbs	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 chopped	punct
28	from	from	ADP	_	29 which	case
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 chopped	obl
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 chopped	nsubj
31	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 made	conj
32	away	away	ADV	_	31 chopped	advmod
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 leaves	det:predet
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 leaves	det
35	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 chopped	obj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 branches	cc
37	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 leaves	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	the Woodman		the trees		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tree=Initial_Location
2	begin	past	the Woodman not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	work	to-infinitive	the Woodman not said here				vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	make	past	Lion	a truck	the limbs of trees	soon property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truck=Product
5	chop away	past	Lion	all leaves and branches		away property	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient from which=Source

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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