The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 152
So the Tin Woodman was forced to return sorrowfully to his friends and tell them of the terrible Beast he had seen.
Who acts: Tin Woodman, Woodman · What happens: force, return, tell, see · To what, where: Tin Woodman, friends · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Tin Woodman, 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 | _ | 6 forced | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Woodman | det |
| 3 | Tin | Tin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Woodman | compound |
| 4 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 forced | aux:pass |
| 6 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 return | mark |
| 8 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 forced | xcomp |
| 9 | sorrowfully | sorrowfully | ADV | _ | 8 return | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 friends | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 friends | nmod:poss |
| 12 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 return | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 tell | cc |
| 14 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 return | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 tell | iobj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Beast | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Beast | det |
| 18 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Beast | amod |
| 19 | Beast | Beast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 tell | obl |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 seen | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 seen | aux |
| 22 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 tell | ccomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 forced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | force | past · passive | the Tin Woodman | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | return | to-infinitive | the Tin Woodman not said here | to Woodman's friends result; sorrowfully property | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to friend=Result | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | the Tin Woodman not said here | friends = friend | of the terrible Beast | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 4 | see | past · perfect | Woodman | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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