The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 68
“I was born the son of a woodman who chopped down trees in the forest and sold the wood for a living.
Who acts: woodman · What happens: bear, chop down, sell · To what, where: Tin Woodman, trees, forest, wood
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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 born | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 born | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 born | aux:pass |
| 4 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 son | det |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 born | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 woodman | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 woodman | det |
| 9 | woodman | woodman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 son | nmod |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 chopped | nsubj |
| 11 | chopped | chop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 woodman | acl:relcl |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 chopped | compound:prt |
| 13 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 chopped | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 forest | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 forest | det |
| 16 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 chopped | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sold | cc |
| 18 | sold | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 born | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 wood | det |
| 20 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sold | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 living | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 living | det |
| 23 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sold | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 born | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear in a quote | past · passive | the Tin Woodman = woodman | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary son=Patient | |||||
| 2 | chop down in a quote | past | a woodman | trees | the forest | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent tree=Patient in forest=Location | |||
| 3 | sell in a quote | past | the wood | for a living | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent wood=Theme for living=Asset |
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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