The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish, sentence 48

Then she kissed the Tin Woodman, who was weeping in a way most dangerous to his joints.

Who acts: child, Tin Woodman · What happens: kiss, weep · To what, where: Tin Woodman

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 kissed	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kissed	nsubj
3	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Woodman	det
5	Tin	Tin	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Woodman	compound
6	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 kissed	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 weeping	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 weeping	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 weeping	aux
10	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 Woodman	acl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 way	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 way	det
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 weeping	obl
14	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	15 dangerous	advmod
15	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 way	amod
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 joints	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 joints	nmod:poss
18	joints	joint	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 dangerous	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 kissed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kiss	past	child	the Tin Woodman			then		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woodman=Co-Agent
2	weep	past · progressive	the Tin Woodman					in a way	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in way=Theme

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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