The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 94
And the Tin Woodman saw that his terrible Beast was nothing but a lot of skins, sewn together, with slats to keep their sides out.
Who acts: Tin Woodman, terrible Beast · What happens: see, be, sew, keep out · To what, where: nothing, skins, sides · 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, terrible Beast), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 saw | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Woodman | det |
| 3 | Tin | Tin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Woodman | compound |
| 4 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 nothing | mark |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 Beast | nmod:poss |
| 8 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Beast | amod |
| 9 | Beast | Beast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 nothing | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 nothing | cop |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 saw | ccomp |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 lot | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 lot | det |
| 14 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 nothing | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 skins | case |
| 16 | skins | skin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 lot | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sewn | punct |
| 18 | sewn | sew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 skins | acl |
| 19 | together | together | ADV | _ | 18 sewn | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 slats | punct |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 slats | case |
| 22 | slats | slat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 sewn | obl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 keep | mark |
| 24 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 sewn | advcl |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 sides | nmod:poss |
| 26 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 keep | obj |
| 27 | out | out | ADV | _ | 24 keep | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the Tin Woodman | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | Woodman's terrible Beast | nothing | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sew | participle | skins not said here | with slats; together property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with slat=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | keep out | to-infinitive | slats's sides | out property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/17/94/