The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug, sentence 40
“Oh, very!” answered Oz. He put the heart in the Woodman’s breast and then replaced the square of tin, soldering it neatly together where it had been cut.
Who acts: Oz. · What happens: answer, put, replace, solder, cut · To what, where: heart, breast, square · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 answered | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 answered | advmod |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 very | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 very | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Oz. | oz. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | nsubj |
| 9 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 put | nsubj |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 answered | ccomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 heart | det |
| 12 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 breast | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Woodman | det |
| 15 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 breast | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 Woodman | case |
| 17 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 replaced | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 replaced | advmod |
| 20 | replaced | replace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 put | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 square | det |
| 22 | square | square | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 replaced | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 tin | case |
| 24 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 square | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 soldering | punct |
| 26 | soldering | solder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 replaced | advcl |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 soldering | obj |
| 28 | neatly | neatly | ADV | _ | 29 together | advmod |
| 29 | together | together | ADV | _ | 26 soldering | advmod |
| 30 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 34 cut | advmod |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 cut | aux |
| 33 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 cut | aux:pass |
| 34 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 soldering | advcl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | put | past | Oz. | the heart | the Woodman's breast | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent heart=Theme in breast=Destination | |||
| 3 | replace | past | Oz. not said here | the square of tin | then | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme square=Co-Theme | |||
| 4 | solder | gerund | Oz. not said here | heart | together property | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 5 | cut | past · perfect · passive | heart | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=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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