The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIII. The Rescue, sentence 18
And when the tinsmiths came, bringing with them all their tools in baskets, she inquired, “Can you straighten out those dents in the Tin Woodman, and bend him back into shape again, and solder him together where he is broken?”
Who acts: tinsmiths, girl, you · What happens: come, bring, inquire, straighten out, bend back, solder · To what, where: tools, baskets, dents, Tin Woodman, Woodman, shape · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (tinsmiths, girl, you), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 inquired | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 came | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tinsmiths | det |
| 4 | tinsmiths | tinsmith | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 inquired | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bringing | punct |
| 7 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 came | advcl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bringing | obl |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 tools | det:predet |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 tools | nmod:poss |
| 12 | tools | tool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 bringing | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 baskets | case |
| 14 | baskets | basket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 tools | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 inquired | nsubj |
| 17 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 straighten | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 straighten | punct |
| 20 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 straighten | aux |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 straighten | nsubj |
| 22 | straighten | straighten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 inquired | conj |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 straighten | compound:prt |
| 24 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 25 dents | det |
| 25 | dents | dent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 straighten | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 Woodman | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Woodman | det |
| 28 | Tin | Tin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Woodman | compound |
| 29 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 dents | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 bend | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 bend | cc |
| 32 | bend | bend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 straighten | conj |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 bend | obj |
| 34 | back | back | ADV | _ | 32 bend | advmod |
| 35 | into | into | ADP | _ | 36 shape | case |
| 36 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 bend | obl |
| 37 | again | again | ADV | _ | 32 bend | advmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 solder | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 solder | cc |
| 40 | solder | solder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 inquired | parataxis |
| 41 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 solder | obj |
| 42 | together | together | ADV | _ | 40 solder | advmod |
| 43 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 46 broken | advmod |
| 44 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 broken | nsubj |
| 45 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 broken | aux:pass |
| 46 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 solder | advcl |
| 47 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 inquired | punct |
| 48 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the tinsmiths | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bring | gerund | the tinsmiths not said here | tinsmiths's tools | baskets | with tinsmiths = tinsmith | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent tool=Theme | ||
| 3 | inquire speech: other | past | girl | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | straighten out in a quote | can | you | that dents | the Tin Woodman | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent dent=Patient | |||
| 5 | bend back in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | Woodman | shape | again | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent he=Material into shape=Product | ||
| 6 | solder in a quote | present | Woodman | together property | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 7 | break in a quote | present · passive | Woodman | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «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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