The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 114
The Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow are destroyed, and the Lion is tied up in your yard.
What happens: destroy, tie up · To what, where: Tin Woodman, Lion
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | 8 destroyed | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Scarecrow | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Scarecrow | det |
| 6 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Woodman | conj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 destroyed | aux:pass |
| 8 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tied | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 tied | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Lion | det |
| 12 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 tied | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 tied | aux:pass |
| 14 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 destroyed | conj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 tied | compound:prt |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 yard | case |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 yard | nmod:poss |
| 18 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tied | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 destroyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | destroy | present · passive | the Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | tie up | present · passive | the Lion | in your yard | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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