The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIII. The Rescue, sentence 11
His axe was near him, but the blade was rusted and the handle broken off short.
What happens: be, rust, break off · To what, where: axe, handle
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIII. The Rescue. 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 axe | nmod:poss |
| 2 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rusted | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 him | cop |
| 4 | near | near | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 axe | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 rusted | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 rusted | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 blade | det |
| 9 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rusted | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 rusted | aux:pass |
| 11 | rusted | rust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 short | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 handle | det |
| 14 | handle | handle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 short | nsubj |
| 15 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 handle | acl |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 broken | compound:prt |
| 17 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 rusted | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 rusted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | near Woodman | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | rust | past · passive | Woodman's axe | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | break off | participle | the handle not said here | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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