The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 17

One of the big trees had been partly chopped through, and standing beside it, with an uplifted axe in his hands, was a man made entirely of tin.

Who acts: standing · What happens: chop, stand, uplift, be, make · To what, where: One, cry, man

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (standing), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 chopped	nsubj:pass
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 trees	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 trees	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 trees	amod
5	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 One	nmod
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 chopped	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 chopped	aux:pass
8	partly	partly	ADV	_	9 chopped	advmod
9	chopped	chop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	through	through	ADV	_	9 chopped	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 man	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 man	cc
13	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 man	csubj
14	beside	beside	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 standing	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 axe	punct
17	with	with	ADP	_	20 axe	case
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 axe	det
19	uplifted	uplift	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 axe	amod
20	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 standing	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 hands	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 hands	nmod:poss
23	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 axe	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 axe	punct
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 man	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 man	det
27	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chopped	obl
28	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 man	acl
29	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	28 made	advmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 tin	case
31	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 made	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 chopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	chop	past · perfect · passive		One of the big trees		partly, through property	vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	stand	gerund			cry	with a uplifted axe in sunshine's hands	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside it=Location
3	uplift	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	past	standing	a man			tree rules
5	make	participle		a man not said here		of tin; entirely property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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