The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIII. The Rescue, sentence 31
As soon as he had spoken, the Tin Woodman began to chop, and in a short time the tree fell over with a crash, whereupon the Scarecrow’s clothes fell out of the branches and rolled off on the ground.
Who acts: Woodman, Tin Woodman, tree, clothes · What happens: speak, begin, chop, fall over, fall, roll off · To what, where: branches, ground · 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 (Woodman, Tin Woodman, tree, clothes), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 began | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 spoken | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 spoken | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 spoken | aux |
| 6 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 began | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 spoken | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Woodman | det |
| 9 | Tin | Tin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Woodman | compound |
| 10 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 began | nsubj |
| 11 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 chop | mark |
| 13 | chop | chop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 began | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fell | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fell | cc |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 time | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 time | det |
| 18 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 time | amod |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fell | obl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 tree | det |
| 21 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fell | nsubj |
| 22 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 began | parataxis |
| 23 | over | over | ADV | _ | 22 fell | advmod |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 crash | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 crash | det |
| 26 | crash | crash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fell | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 fell | punct |
| 28 | whereupon | whereupon | ADV | PronType=Int | 33 fell | advmod |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Scarecrow | det |
| 30 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 31 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 30 Scarecrow | case |
| 32 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 33 fell | nsubj |
| 33 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 fell | conj |
| 34 | out | out | ADP | _ | 37 branches | case |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 branches | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 branches | det |
| 37 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 fell | obl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 rolled | cc |
| 39 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 fell | conj |
| 40 | off | off | ADP | _ | 39 rolled | compound:prt |
| 41 | on | on | ADP | _ | 43 ground | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 ground | det |
| 43 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 rolled | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past · perfect | Woodman | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | begin | past | the Tin Woodman | soon property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | chop | to-infinitive | the Tin Woodman not said here | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | fall over | past | the tree | time | with a crash; over property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | fall | past | the Scarecrow's clothes | the branches | whereupon property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out branch=Location | |||
| 6 | roll off | participle | the Scarecrow's clothes not said here | the ground | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=Trajectory |
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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