The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees, sentence 41

When a big branch bent down to seize him the Woodman chopped at it so fiercely that he cut it in two.

Who acts: big branch, Woodman · What happens: bend down, seize, chop, cut · To what, where: big branch, Woodman, journey, two

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 (big branch, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 chopped	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 branch	det
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 branch	amod
4	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 chopped	nsubj
5	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 branch	acl
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 bent	compound:prt
7	to	to	PART	_	8 seize	mark
8	seize	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 bent	advcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 seize	obj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Woodman	det
11	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 seize	obj
12	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 cut	advcl
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 chopped	obl
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 fiercely	advmod
16	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	_	12 chopped	advmod
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 cut	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 cut	nsubj
19	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 cut	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 two	case
22	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 cut	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bend down	participle		a big branch not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	seize	to-infinitive		Woodman			tree rules
3	chop	past	a big branch			at journey; fiercely property	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at it=Patient
4	cut	past	Woodman	journey	two		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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