The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 87

Once more the tinsmith came to my help and made me a body of tin, fastening my tin arms and legs and head to it, by means of joints, so that I could move around as well as ever.

Who acts: tinsmith, I, my · What happens: come, make, fasten, mean, move around, help · To what, where: help, body, me, tin arms

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, I, my), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 more	advmod
2	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 came	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tinsmith	det
4	tinsmith	tinsmith	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 help	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 help	nmod:poss
8	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 made	cc
10	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 made	obj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 body	det
13	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 tin	case
15	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 body	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fastening	punct
17	fastening	fasten	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 made	advcl
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 arms	nmod:poss
19	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 arms	compound
20	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 fastening	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 legs	cc
22	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 arms	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 head	cc
24	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 arms	conj
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 fastening	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 means	punct
28	by	by	ADP	_	29 means	case
29	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 made	parataxis
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 joints	case
31	joints	joint	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 means	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 move	punct
33	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	37 move	mark
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 so	fixed
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 move	nsubj
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 move	aux
37	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 means	conj
38	around	around	ADV	_	37 move	advmod
39	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	37 move	advmod
40	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	39 as	fixed
41	as	as	ADP	_	39 as	fixed
42	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	39 as	fixed
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	the tinsmith			my help		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to help=Initial_Location
2	make	past	the tinsmith not said here	a body of tin	me			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary body=Product
3	fasten	gerund	the tinsmith not said here	my tin arms and legs and head	body			vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient to it=Co-Patient
4	mean	present					of joints	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
5	move around	could	I				around property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
6	help		my					nom help «act transitive»: poss=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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