The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 83
The Wicked Witch then made the axe slip and cut off my head, and at first I thought that was the end of me.
Who acts: Wicked Witch, I, that · What happens: make, cut off, think, be · To what, where: axe slip, end · 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 (Wicked Witch, I, that), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Witch | det |
| 2 | Wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Witch | amod |
| 3 | Witch | Witch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 made | nsubj |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 made | advmod |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 slip | det |
| 7 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 slip | compound |
| 8 | slip | slip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 head | cc |
| 10 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 head | amod |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 cut | compound:prt |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 head | nmod:poss |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 slip | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 thought | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 thought | cc |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 first | case |
| 17 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 thought | obl |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 thought | nsubj |
| 19 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | conj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 end | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 end | cop |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 end | det |
| 23 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 thought | ccomp |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 me | case |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 end | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the Wicked Witch | the axe slip and my cut head | then | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slip=Product | |||
| 2 | cut off | participle | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | I | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | that | the end | of me | tree rules |
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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