The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 32

As soon as he could raise his axe another wolf came up, and he also fell under the sharp edge of the Tin Woodman’s weapon.

Who acts: Scarecrow, wolf · What happens: raise, come up, fall · To what, where: axe, sharp edge

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, wolf), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 came	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 raise	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 raise	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 raise	aux
6	raise	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 soon	advcl
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 axe	nmod:poss
8	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 raise	obj
9	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	10 wolf	det
10	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	up	up	ADV	_	11 came	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fell	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 fell	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 fell	nsubj
16	also	also	ADV	_	17 fell	advmod
17	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 came	conj
18	under	under	ADP	_	21 edge	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 edge	det
20	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 edge	amod
21	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fell	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	27 weapon	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Woodman	det
24	Tin	Tin	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Woodman	compound
25	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 weapon	nmod:poss
26	’s	's	PART	_	25 Woodman	case
27	weapon	weapon	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 edge	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	raise	could	Scarecrow	Scarecrow's axe			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme
2	come up	past	another wolf			soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fall	past	Scarecrow		the sharp edge of the Tin Woodman's weapon		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under edge=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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