The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIII. The Rescue, sentence 29

Now while the tinsmiths had been at work mending the Woodman himself, another of the Winkies, who was a goldsmith, had made an axe-handle of solid gold and fitted it to the Woodman’s axe, instead of the old broken handle.

Who acts: work, Woodman · What happens: be, mend, make, fit, break · To what, where: work, Woodman, goldsmith, tinsmiths, Monkeys, axe

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 (work, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 made	advmod
2	while	while	SCONJ	_	25 made	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tinsmiths	det
4	tinsmiths	tinsmith	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 made	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 work	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 work	cop
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 work	case
8	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tinsmiths	nmod
9	mending	mend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 work	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Woodman	det
11	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 mending	obj
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 Woodman	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Winkies	punct
14	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	17 Winkies	det
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 Winkies	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Winkies	det
17	Winkies	Winky	PROPN	Number=Plur	11 Woodman	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 goldsmith	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 goldsmith	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 goldsmith	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 goldsmith	det
22	goldsmith	goldsmith	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Woodman	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tinsmiths	punct
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 made	aux
25	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 handle	det
27	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 handle	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 axe	punct
29	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 made	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 gold	case
31	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 gold	amod
32	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 handle	nmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 fitted	cc
34	fitted	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 made	conj
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 fitted	obj
36	to	to	ADP	_	40 axe	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Woodman	det
38	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 axe	nmod:poss
39	’s	's	PART	_	38 Woodman	case
40	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 fitted	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 handle	punct
42	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	47 handle	case
43	of	of	ADP	_	42 instead	fixed
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 handle	det
45	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 handle	amod
46	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 handle	amod
47	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 axe	conj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect			work			tree rules
2	mend	gerund	work not said here	the Woodman Woodman and another Winkies and a goldsmith				tree rules
3	is a	past	the Woodman Woodman and another Winkies and a goldsmith	a goldsmith				tree rules
4	make	past · perfect · passive		the tinsmiths		now		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary handle=Product
5	fit	past		Monkeys			to the Woodman's axe and the old broken handle goal	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Patient to axe=Goal
6	break	participle						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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