The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 76
“This at first seemed a great misfortune, for I knew a one-legged man could not do very well as a wood-chopper.
Who acts: This, old woman, legged man · What happens: seem, know, not do · To what, where: great misfortune · 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 (This, old woman, legged man), 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 | _ | 5 seemed | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 seemed | nsubj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 first | case |
| 4 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 seemed | obl |
| 5 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 misfortune | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 misfortune | amod |
| 8 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seemed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 knew | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 knew | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 knew | nsubj |
| 12 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seemed | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 legged | nummod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 one | punct |
| 16 | legged | legged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 do | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 do | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 do | advmod |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 knew | ccomp |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 well | advmod |
| 22 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 do | advmod |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 chopper | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 chopper | det |
| 25 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 chopper | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 wood | punct |
| 27 | chopper | chopper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 do | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem in a quote | past | This | a great misfortune | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme misfortune=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | know in a quote | past | the old woman = woman | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | not do in a quote | could | a legged man | as a wood chopper; well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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