The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 53
The Tin Woodman, raising his axe, rushed toward the little man and cried out, “Who are you?”
Who acts: Tin Woodman, you · What happens: raise, rush, cry out, be · To what, where: axe · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tin Woodman, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Woodman | det |
| 2 | Tin | Tin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Woodman | compound |
| 3 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 raising | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 raising | punct |
| 5 | raising | raise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 axe | nmod:poss |
| 7 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 raising | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 rushed | punct |
| 9 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 raising | conj |
| 10 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 13 man | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rushed | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 cried | cc |
| 15 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 raising | conj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 cried | compound:prt |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Who | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Who | punct |
| 19 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 cried | parataxis |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 Who | cop |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 Who | nsubj |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 cried | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 raising | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | gerund | the Tin Woodman | Woodman's axe | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rush | participle | the Tin Woodman not said here | toward the little man | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward man=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | cry out speech: express | past | the Tin Woodman not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | you | 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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