The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug, sentence 35
So Oz brought a pair of tinsmith’s shears and cut a small, square hole in the left side of the Tin Woodman’s breast.
Who acts: Oz · What happens: bring, cut · To what, where: pair, small square hole, left side
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Oz), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 brought | advmod |
| 2 | Oz | Oz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pair | det |
| 5 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 shears | case |
| 7 | tinsmith | tinsmith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shears | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 tinsmith | case |
| 9 | shears | shear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pair | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 cut | cc |
| 11 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brought | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 hole | det |
| 13 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hole | amod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 small | punct |
| 15 | square | square | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hole | amod |
| 16 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cut | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 side | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 side | det |
| 19 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 side | amod |
| 20 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hole | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 breast | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Woodman | det |
| 23 | Tin | Tin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Woodman | compound |
| 24 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 breast | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 Woodman | case |
| 26 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 side | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | Oz | a pair of tinsmith's shears | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent pair=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cut | past | Oz not said here | a small square hole | the left side of the Tin Woodman's breast | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hole=Product |
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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