The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees, sentence 42

At once the tree began shaking all its branches as if in pain, and the Tin Woodman passed safely under it.

Who acts: tree, Tin Woodman · What happens: begin, shake, pass · To what, where: branches, tree

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 (tree, Tin 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 once	case
2	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 began	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tree	det
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 began	nsubj
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	shaking	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 began	xcomp
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 branches	det:predet
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 branches	nmod:poss
9	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 shaking	obj
10	as	as	ADP	_	13 pain	case
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 pain	mark
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 pain	case
13	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shaking	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 passed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 passed	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Woodman	det
17	Tin	Tin	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Woodman	compound
18	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 passed	nsubj
19	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 began	conj
20	safely	safely	ADV	_	19 passed	advmod
21	under	under	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 passed	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the tree				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	shake	gerund	the tree not said here	tree's branches		as pain	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent branch=Patient
3	pass	past	the Tin Woodman		tree	safely property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under it=Location

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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