The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 140
But being only tin, the Woodman was not at all afraid, although he was much disappointed.
Who acts: Woodman · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: tin, all
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 tin | cc |
| 2 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 tin | cop |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 tin | advmod |
| 4 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 afraid | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tin | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Woodman | det |
| 7 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 afraid | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 afraid | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 afraid | advmod |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 all | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 afraid | obl |
| 12 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 disappointed | punct |
| 14 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 18 disappointed | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 disappointed | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 disappointed | cop |
| 17 | much | much | ADV | _ | 18 disappointed | advmod |
| 18 | disappointed | disappointed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 afraid | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | gerund | tin | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not is | past | the Woodman | all | afraid property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | past | Woodman | disappointed property | tree rules |
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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