The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 5

So the Woodman raised his axe, and as the Wildcat ran by he gave it a quick blow that cut the beast’s head clean off from its body, and it rolled over at his feet in two pieces.

Who acts: Woodman, Wildcat, quick blow, head · What happens: raise, run by, give, cut, clean off, roll over · To what, where: axe, body, feet

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, Wildcat, quick blow, head), 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 raised	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Woodman	det
3	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 raised	nsubj
4	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 axe	nmod:poss
6	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 raised	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 gave	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 gave	cc
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 ran	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Wildcat	det
11	Wildcat	Wildcat	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 ran	nsubj
12	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 gave	advcl
13	by	by	ADP	_	12 ran	obl
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 gave	nsubj
15	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 raised	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 gave	obj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 blow	det
18	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 blow	amod
19	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gave	obj
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 cut	nsubj
21	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 blow	acl:relcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 beast	det
23	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 head	nmod:poss
24	’s	's	PART	_	23 beast	case
25	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 clean	nsubj
26	clean	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 cut	parataxis
27	off	off	ADP	_	26 clean	compound:prt
28	from	from	ADP	_	30 body	case
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 body	nmod:poss
30	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 clean	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 rolled	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 rolled	cc
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 rolled	nsubj
34	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 raised	parataxis
35	over	over	ADV	_	34 rolled	advmod
36	at	at	ADP	_	38 feet	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 feet	nmod:poss
38	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 rolled	obl
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 pieces	case
40	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 pieces	nummod
41	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 rolled	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 raised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	raise	past	the Woodman	mouse's axe			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme
2	run by	past	the Wildcat				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	give	past	Wildcat	axe			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient blow=Theme
4	cut	past	a quick blow				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	clean off	present	the beast's head		head's body		vn clear-10.3 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from body=Source
6	roll over	past	head		Wildcat's feet	in two pieces; over property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme at foot=Source in piece=Trajectory

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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