The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 31
He seized his axe, which he had made very sharp, and as the leader of the wolves came on the Tin Woodman swung his arm and chopped the wolf’s head from its body, so that it immediately died.
Who acts: Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, head · What happens: seize, make, come, swing, chop, die · To what, where: axe, arm, head, body
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: who acts (Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 seized | nsubj |
| 2 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 axe | nmod:poss |
| 4 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 seized | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 made | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 made | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 made | aux |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 axe | acl:relcl |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 sharp | advmod |
| 11 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 made | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 came | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 came | cc |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 leader | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 leader | det |
| 16 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 wolves | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wolves | det |
| 19 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 leader | nmod |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 seized | parataxis |
| 21 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 25 swung | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Woodman | det |
| 23 | Tin | Tin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Woodman | compound |
| 24 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 swung | nsubj |
| 25 | swung | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 came | advcl |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 arm | nmod:poss |
| 27 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 swung | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 chopped | cc |
| 29 | chopped | chop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 swung | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 wolf | det |
| 31 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 head | nmod:poss |
| 32 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 31 wolf | case |
| 33 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 chopped | obj |
| 34 | from | from | ADP | _ | 36 body | case |
| 35 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 body | nmod:poss |
| 36 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 chopped | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 died | punct |
| 38 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 42 died | mark |
| 39 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 so | fixed |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 died | nsubj |
| 41 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 42 died | advmod |
| 42 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 came | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | Scarecrow | Scarecrow's axe | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | past · perfect · passive | Scarecrow's axe | sharp property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 3 | come | past | as the leader of the wolves | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | swing | past | the Tin Woodman | Scarecrow's arm | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | ||||
| 5 | chop | past | the Tin Woodman not said here | the wolf's head | head's body | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent head=Patient from body=Source | |||
| 6 | die | past | head | immediately property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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