The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 80
When I began chopping again, my axe slipped and cut off my right leg.
Who acts: I, axe · What happens: begin, chop, slip, cut off · To what, where: right 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 (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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 began | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 slipped | advcl |
| 4 | chopping | chop | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 began | xcomp |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 chopping | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 axe | nmod:poss |
| 8 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 slipped | nsubj |
| 9 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 cut | cc |
| 11 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 slipped | conj |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 cut | compound:prt |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 leg | nmod:poss |
| 14 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 leg | amod |
| 15 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cut | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 slipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | I | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | chop | gerund | I not said here | again | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | slip | past | my axe | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | cut off | past | my axe not said here | my right 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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