The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 34
“I have been holding that axe in the air ever since I rusted, and I’m glad to be able to put it down at last.
Who acts: Scarecrow · What happens: hold, rust, be, put down · To what, where: axe, air, last
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 (Scarecrow), 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 | _ | 5 holding | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 holding | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 holding | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 holding | aux |
| 5 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 rusted | advcl |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 axe | det |
| 7 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 holding | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 air | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 air | det |
| 10 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 holding | obl |
| 11 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 rusted | advmod |
| 12 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 14 rusted | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 rusted | nsubj |
| 14 | rusted | rust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ’m | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 ’m | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 ’m | nsubj |
| 18 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 rusted | conj |
| 19 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 ’m | xcomp |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 able | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 able | cop |
| 22 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 glad | advcl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 put | mark |
| 24 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 able | xcomp |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 put | obj |
| 26 | down | down | ADP | _ | 24 put | compound:prt |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 last | case |
| 28 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 put | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 rusted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold in a quote | present · perfect · progressive | Scarecrow | that axe | the air | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent axe=Theme in air=Location | |||
| 2 | rust in a quote | past | Scarecrow | ever | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | Scarecrow | glad property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | to-infinitive | Scarecrow not said here | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | put down in a quote | to-infinitive | Scarecrow not said here | axe | last | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme at last=Destination |
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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