The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 75
Thereupon the Wicked Witch enchanted my axe, and when I was chopping away at my best one day, for I was anxious to get the new house and my wife as soon as possible, the axe slipped all at once and cut off my left leg.
Who acts: Wicked Witch, I, axe · What happens: enchant, chop away, be, get, slip, cut off · To what, where: axe, new house, left leg
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 (Wicked Witch, I, axe), 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 5 enchanted | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Witch | det |
| 3 | Wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Witch | amod |
| 4 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 enchanted | nsubj |
| 5 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 axe | nmod:poss |
| 7 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 enchanted | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 chopping | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 chopping | cc |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 chopping | advmod |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 chopping | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 chopping | aux |
| 13 | chopping | chop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 enchanted | advcl |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 chopping | advmod |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 day | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 day | nmod:poss |
| 17 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 day | amod |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 day | nummod |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 chopping | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 anxious | punct |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 anxious | case |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 anxious | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 anxious | cop |
| 24 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 enchanted | parataxis |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 get | mark |
| 26 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 anxious | advcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 house | det |
| 28 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 house | amod |
| 29 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 get | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 wife | cc |
| 31 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 wife | nmod:poss |
| 32 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 get | conj |
| 33 | as | as | ADV | _ | 34 soon | advmod |
| 34 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 get | advmod |
| 35 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 36 possible | mark |
| 36 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 soon | advcl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 slipped | punct |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 axe | det |
| 39 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 slipped | nsubj |
| 40 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 enchanted | parataxis |
| 41 | all | all | ADV | _ | 40 slipped | advmod |
| 42 | at | at | ADP | _ | 43 once | case |
| 43 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 40 slipped | obl |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 cut | cc |
| 45 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 slipped | conj |
| 46 | off | off | ADP | _ | 45 cut | compound:prt |
| 47 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 leg | nmod:poss |
| 48 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 leg | amod |
| 49 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 cut | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 enchanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enchant | past | the Wicked Witch | my axe | thereupon property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus axe=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | chop away | past · progressive | I | day | away property | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | is | past | I | anxious property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | I not said here | the new house | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | slip | past | the axe | all property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 6 | cut off | infinitive | the axe not said here | my left leg | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector leg=Eventuality |
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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