The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 69

When I grew up, I too became a wood-chopper, and after my father died I took care of my old mother as long as she lived.

Who acts: I, father, Woodman, old mother · What happens: grow up, become, die, take, live, care · To what, where: wood chopper, care

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 (I, father, Woodman, old mother), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 grew	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 became	advcl
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 grew	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 grew	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 became	nsubj
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 became	advmod
8	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 chopper	det
10	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 chopper	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 wood	punct
12	chopper	chopper	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 became	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 died	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 died	cc
15	after	after	SCONJ	_	18 died	mark
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 father	nmod:poss
17	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 died	nsubj
18	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 became	conj
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 took	nsubj
20	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 died	conj
21	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 took	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 mother	case
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 mother	nmod:poss
24	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 mother	amod
25	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 care	nmod
26	as	as	ADV	_	27 long	advmod
27	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 took	advmod
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 lived	mark
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 lived	nsubj
30	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 long	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grow up	past	I			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	become	past	I	a wood chopper		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	die	past	my father			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	take	past	I	care of my old mother	long property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
5	live	past	Woodman			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	care		my old mother			nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent

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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