The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South, sentence 7
Then the Tin Woodman wept for several minutes, and she watched the tears carefully and wiped them away with the towel.
Who acts: Tin Woodman, Woodman · What happens: weep, watch, wipe away · To what, where: tears
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South. 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, Woodman), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 wept | advmod |
| 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 wept | nsubj |
| 5 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 minutes | case |
| 7 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 minutes | amod |
| 8 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wept | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 watched | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 watched | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 watched | nsubj |
| 12 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wept | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tears | det |
| 14 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 watched | obj |
| 15 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 12 watched | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 wiped | cc |
| 17 | wiped | wipe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 watched | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 wiped | obj |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 wiped | advmod |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 towel | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 towel | det |
| 22 | towel | towel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wiped | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | past | the Tin Woodman | then; minute | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | watch | past | Woodman | the tears | carefully property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tear=Theme | |||
| 3 | wipe away | past | Woodman not said here | tears = tear | with the towel; away property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source |
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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