The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 18
His head and arms and legs were jointed upon his body, but he stood perfectly motionless, as if he could not stir at all.
Who acts: man · What happens: joint, stand, not stir · To what, where: head, all
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 (man), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 head | nmod:poss |
| 2 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 jointed | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 arms | cc |
| 4 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 head | conj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 legs | cc |
| 6 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 arms | conj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 jointed | aux:pass |
| 8 | jointed | joint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 body | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 body | nmod:poss |
| 11 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 jointed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stood | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 stood | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 stood | nsubj |
| 15 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 jointed | parataxis |
| 16 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 17 motionless | advmod |
| 17 | motionless | motionless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stood | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 stir | punct |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 stir | mark |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 stir | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 stir | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 stir | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 stir | advmod |
| 24 | stir | stir | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 stood | conj |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 all | case |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 stir | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 jointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | joint | past · passive | man's head and arms and legs | upon man's body | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | man | motionless property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not stir a condition, not said to happen | could | man | all | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=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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