The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 84
But the tinsmith happened to come along, and he made me a new head out of tin.
Who acts: tinsmith · What happens: happen, come along, make · To what, where: me, tin
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 (tinsmith), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 happened | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tinsmith | det |
| 3 | tinsmith | tinsmith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 come | mark |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 happened | xcomp |
| 7 | along | along | ADV | _ | 6 come | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 made | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 made | nsubj |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 happened | conj |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 made | obj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 head | det |
| 14 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 head | amod |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 tin | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 tin | case |
| 18 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | the tinsmith | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | come along | to-infinitive | the tinsmith not said here | along property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | past | tinsmith | me | tin | a new head obl:unmarked | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Product |
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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