The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 50
So the Tin Woodman shouldered his axe and they all passed through the forest until they came to the road that was paved with yellow brick.
Who acts: Tin Woodman, brains · What happens: shoulder, pass, come, pave · To what, where: axe, forest, road
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, brains), 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 | _ | 5 shouldered | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Woodman | det |
| 3 | Tin | Tin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Woodman | compound |
| 4 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 shouldered | nsubj |
| 5 | shouldered | shoulder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 axe | nmod:poss |
| 7 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shouldered | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 passed | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 passed | nsubj |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 passed | advmod |
| 11 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 shouldered | conj |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 forest | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 forest | det |
| 14 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 passed | obl |
| 15 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 17 came | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 came | nsubj |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 passed | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 road | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 road | det |
| 20 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | obl |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 paved | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 paved | aux:pass |
| 23 | paved | pave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 road | acl:relcl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 brick | case |
| 25 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 brick | amod |
| 26 | brick | brick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 paved | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shouldered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoulder | past | the Tin Woodman | Scarecrow's axe | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent axe=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pass | past | brains = brain | the forest | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through forest=Location | ||||
| 3 | come | past | brains = brain | the road | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to road=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | pave | past · passive | the road | with yellow brick | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with brick=Theme |
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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