The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 40
The Tin Woodman lay down on his bed from force of habit, for he remembered when he was made of flesh; but not being able to sleep, he passed the night moving his joints up and down to make sure they kept in good working order.
Who acts: Tin Woodman, Woodman, joints · What happens: lie down, remember, make, not be, sleep, pass · To what, where: bed, Woodman, joints, good working order
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, joints), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Woodman | det |
| 2 | Tin | Tin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Woodman | compound |
| 3 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | nsubj |
| 4 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 lay | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 bed | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 bed | nmod:poss |
| 8 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | obl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 force | case |
| 10 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 habit | case |
| 12 | habit | habit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 force | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 remembered | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 remembered | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 remembered | nsubj |
| 16 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lay | conj |
| 17 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 20 made | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 made | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 made | aux:pass |
| 20 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 remembered | ccomp |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 flesh | case |
| 22 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 made | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 able | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 able | cc |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 able | advmod |
| 26 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 able | cop |
| 27 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 remembered | advcl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 sleep | mark |
| 29 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 able | xcomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 passed | punct |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 passed | nsubj |
| 32 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lay | parataxis |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 night | det |
| 34 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 35 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 passed | advcl |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 joints | nmod:poss |
| 37 | joints | joint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 moving | obj |
| 38 | up | up | ADV | _ | 35 moving | advmod |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 down | cc |
| 40 | down | down | ADV | _ | 38 up | conj |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 make | mark |
| 42 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 moving | advcl |
| 43 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 make | xcomp |
| 44 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 kept | nsubj |
| 45 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 sure | ccomp |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 order | case |
| 47 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 order | amod |
| 48 | working | working | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 order | compound |
| 49 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 kept | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie down | past | the Tin Woodman | Woodman's bed | from force of habit; down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bed=Location | |||
| 2 | remember | past | Woodman | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | make | past · passive | Woodman | of flesh | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 4 | not is | gerund | Woodman not said here | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | sleep | to-infinitive | Woodman not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | pass | past | Woodman | night | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | move | gerund | Woodman not said here | Woodman's joints | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent joint=Theme | ||||
| 8 | make | to-infinitive | Woodman not said here | sure property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 9 | keep | past | joints = joint | good working order | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in order=Location |
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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