The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 32
The Tin Woodman gave a sigh of satisfaction and lowered his axe, which he leaned against the tree.
Who acts: Tin Woodman, axe · What happens: give, lower, learn, sigh · To what, where: sigh, axe, satisfaction
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 (Tin Woodman, axe), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Woodman | det |
| 2 | Tin | Tin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Woodman | compound |
| 3 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sigh | det |
| 6 | sigh | sigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 satisfaction | case |
| 8 | satisfaction | satisfaction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sigh | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lowered | cc |
| 10 | lowered | lower | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gave | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 axe | nmod:poss |
| 12 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lowered | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 leaned | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 leaned | nsubj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 leaned | nsubj |
| 16 | leaned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 axe | acl:relcl |
| 17 | against | against | ADP | _ | 19 tree | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tree | det |
| 19 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 leaned | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the Tin Woodman | a sigh of satisfaction | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sigh=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lower | past | the Tin Woodman not said here | Scarecrow's axe | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme | ||||
| 3 | learn | past | Scarecrow's axe | against the tree | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | sigh | satisfaction | nom sigh «communication 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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