The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIII. The Rescue, sentence 28

It was a very tall tree, and the trunk was so smooth that no one could climb it; but the Woodman said at once, “I’ll chop it down, and then we can get the Scarecrow’s clothes.”

Who acts: Monkeys, trunk, one, Woodman, we · What happens: be, climb, say, chop down, get · To what, where: tall tree, Monkeys, clothes · 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 (Monkeys, trunk, one, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tree	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tree	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tree	det
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 tall	advmod
5	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tree	amod
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 smooth	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 smooth	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 trunk	det
10	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 smooth	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 smooth	cop
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 smooth	advmod
13	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tree	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 climb	mark
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 one	det
16	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 climb	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 climb	aux
18	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 smooth	advcl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 climb	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 said	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Woodman	det
23	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 said	nsubj
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tree	parataxis
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 once	case
26	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	24 said	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 chop	punct
28	“	"	PUNCT	_	31 chop	punct
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 chop	nsubj
30	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 chop	aux
31	chop	chop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 said	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 chop	obj
33	down	down	ADP	_	31 chop	compound:prt
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 get	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 get	cc
36	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 get	advmod
37	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 get	nsubj
38	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 get	aux
39	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 chop	conj
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 Scarecrow	det
41	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 clothes	nmod:poss
42	’s	's	PART	_	41 Scarecrow	case
43	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	39 get	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tree	punct
45	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 tree	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Monkeys	a tall tree			tree rules
2	is	past	the trunk			smooth property	tree rules
3	climb	could	no one	Monkeys			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location it=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	the Woodman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	chop down in a quote	future	the Woodman = woodman	Monkeys			vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
6	get in a quote	can	we	the Scarecrow's clothes	then		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer clothes=Stimulus

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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