The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 67

So, while they were walking through the forest, the Tin Woodman told the following story:

Who acts: head, Tin Woodman · What happens: walk, tell, follow · To what, where: forest, following story · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (head, Tin Woodman), 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	_	14 told	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 So	punct
3	while	while	SCONJ	_	6 walking	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 walking	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 walking	aux
6	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 told	advcl
7	through	through	ADP	_	9 forest	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 forest	det
9	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walking	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 walking	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Woodman	det
12	Tin	Tin	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Woodman	compound
13	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 told	nsubj
14	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 story	det
16	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 story	amod
17	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 told	obj
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	walk	past · progressive	head		the forest	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through forest=Trajectory
2	tell speech: assert	past	the Tin Woodman	the following story		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
3	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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