The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 29
So she oiled it, and as it was quite badly rusted the Scarecrow took hold of the tin head and moved it gently from side to side until it worked freely, and then the man could turn it himself.
Who acts: Woodman, Scarecrow, neck, man · What happens: oil, rust, take, move, work, turn · To what, where: neck, hold, side, tin head
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 (Woodman, Scarecrow, neck, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 oiled | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 oiled | nsubj |
| 3 | oiled | oil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 oiled | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 took | cc |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 rusted | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 rusted | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 rusted | aux:pass |
| 10 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 12 rusted | advmod |
| 11 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 rusted | advmod |
| 12 | rusted | rust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 took | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Scarecrow | det |
| 14 | Scarecrow | Scarecrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 took | nsubj |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 oiled | conj |
| 16 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 head | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 head | det |
| 19 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 head | compound |
| 20 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hold | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 moved | cc |
| 22 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 took | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 moved | obj |
| 24 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 22 moved | advmod |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 side | case |
| 26 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 moved | obl |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 side | case |
| 28 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 moved | obl |
| 29 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 31 worked | mark |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 worked | nsubj |
| 31 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 moved | advcl |
| 32 | freely | freely | ADV | _ | 31 worked | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 turn | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 turn | cc |
| 35 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 39 turn | advmod |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 man | det |
| 37 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 turn | nsubj |
| 38 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 turn | aux |
| 39 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 took | conj |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 turn | obj |
| 41 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 39 turn | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 oiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oil | past | Woodman | neck | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination | ||||
| 2 | rust | past · passive | neck | badly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | past | the Scarecrow | hold of the tin head | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | ||||
| 4 | move | past | the Scarecrow not said here | neck | side | to side result; gently property | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.initial_state PP.result»: agent=Patient it=Extent from side=Initial_State to side=Result | ||
| 5 | work | past | neck | freely property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | turn | could | the man | neck | then | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: agent=Agent it=Theme himself=Result | |||
| 7 | hold | the tin head | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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