The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIII. The Rescue, sentence 19

The tinsmiths looked the Woodman over carefully and then answered that they thought they could mend him so he would be as good as ever.

Who acts: tinsmiths, Woodman · What happens: look, answer, think, mend, be · To what, where: Woodman · 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, Woodman), 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	2 tinsmiths	det
2	tinsmiths	tinsmith	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Woodman	det
5	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 looked	obj
6	over	over	ADV	_	7 carefully	advmod
7	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	3 looked	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 answered	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 answered	advmod
10	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	conj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 thought	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 thought	nsubj
13	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 answered	ccomp
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 mend	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 mend	aux
16	mend	mend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 thought	ccomp
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 mend	obj
18	so	so	ADV	_	23 good	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 good	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 good	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 good	cop
22	as	as	ADV	_	23 good	advmod
23	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 mend	parataxis
24	as	as	ADP	_	25 ever	case
25	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	23 good	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	the tinsmiths	the Woodman		carefully property	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme woodman=Attribute
2	answer speech: assert	past	the tinsmiths not said here		then		tree rules
3	think speech: other	past	tinsmiths = tinsmith				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	mend	could	tinsmiths = tinsmith	Woodman			tree rules
5	is	would	Woodman			good property	tree rules

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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