The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees, sentence 40

“I believe I will try it myself,” said the Woodman, and shouldering his axe, he marched up to the first tree that had handled the Scarecrow so roughly.

Who acts: Woodman · What happens: believe, try, say, shoulder, march up, handle · To what, where: journey, axe, first tree · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 believe	nsubj
3	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 try	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 try	aux
6	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 believe	ccomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 believe	obj
8	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	3 believe	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 believe	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 believe	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Woodman	det
13	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 shouldering	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 shouldering	cc
16	shouldering	shoulder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 said	advcl
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 axe	nmod:poss
18	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 shouldering	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 marched	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 marched	nsubj
21	marched	march	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 marched	compound:prt
23	to	to	ADP	_	26 tree	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 tree	det
25	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	26 tree	amod
26	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 marched	obl
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 handled	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 handled	aux
29	handled	handle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 tree	acl:relcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Scarecrow	det
31	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 handled	obj
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 roughly	advmod
33	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	21 marched	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	believe in a quote	present	the Woodman = woodman	journey	myself obl:unmarked	tree rules
2	try in a quote	future	the Woodman = woodman			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	say speech: assert	past	the Woodman			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	shoulder	gerund	the Woodman not said here	Woodman's axe		vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent axe=Theme
5	march up	past	Woodman		to the first tree result; roughly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to tree=Result
6	handle	past · perfect · passive		the first tree		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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