The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 54
But the Tin Woodman set to work with his axe and chopped so well that soon he cleared a passage for the entire party.
Who acts: Tin Woodman, road · What happens: set, work, chop, clear · To what, where: passage
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, road), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 set | cc |
| 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 set | nsubj |
| 5 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 work | mark |
| 7 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 set | xcomp |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 axe | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 axe | nmod:poss |
| 10 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 work | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 chopped | cc |
| 12 | chopped | chop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 set | conj |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 well | advmod |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 chopped | advmod |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 cleared | mark |
| 16 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 cleared | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 cleared | nsubj |
| 18 | cleared | clear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 chopped | advcl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 passage | det |
| 20 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cleared | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 party | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 party | det |
| 23 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 party | amod |
| 24 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 passage | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | the Tin Woodman | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | work | to-infinitive | the Tin Woodman not said here | with road's axe | vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with axe=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | chop | past | the Tin Woodman not said here | well property | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | clear | past | road | a passage | for the entire party; soon property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent passage=Product for party=Beneficiary |
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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