The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 25
“They are rusted so badly that I cannot move them at all; if I am well oiled I shall soon be all right again.
Who acts: man · What happens: rust, not move, oil, be · To what, where: joints, all, 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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 rusted | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 rusted | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 rusted | aux:pass |
| 4 | rusted | rust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 badly | advmod |
| 6 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 rusted | advmod |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 move | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 move | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 move | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 move | advmod |
| 11 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 rusted | advcl |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 move | obj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 all | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 move | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 oiled | punct |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 oiled | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 oiled | nsubj |
| 18 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 oiled | aux:pass |
| 19 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 oiled | advmod |
| 20 | oiled | oil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 rusted | conj |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 right | nsubj |
| 22 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 right | aux |
| 23 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 right | advmod |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 right | cop |
| 25 | all | all | ADV | _ | 26 right | advmod |
| 26 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 oiled | parataxis |
| 27 | again | again | ADV | _ | 26 right | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rusted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rust in a quote | present · passive | joints = joint | badly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not move in a quote | can | man | joints = joint | all | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 3 | oil a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · passive | man | well property | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | shall | man | again | all, right, soon property | tree rules |
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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