The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees, sentence 46
But the Woodman promptly chopped off the branch and set the little dog free.
Who acts: Woodman · What happens: chop off, set · To what, where: branch, little dog
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 chopped | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Woodman | det |
| 3 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 chopped | nsubj |
| 4 | promptly | promptly | ADV | _ | 5 chopped | advmod |
| 5 | chopped | chop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 branch | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 branch | det |
| 8 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chopped | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 set | cc |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 chopped | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dog | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 dog | amod |
| 13 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 set | obj |
| 14 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 set | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 chopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chop off | past | the Woodman | the branch | promptly property | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Patient | |||
| 2 | set | past | the Woodman not said here | the little dog | free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient dog=Result |
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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