The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 97
Both Dorothy and the Scarecrow had been greatly interested in the story of the Tin Woodman, and now they knew why he was so anxious to get a new heart.
Who acts: Dorothy, joints, Oz · What happens: be, know, get · To what, where: story, new heart
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 (Dorothy, joints, Oz), 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 | Both | both | CCONJ | _ | 2 Dorothy | cc:preconj |
| 2 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 interested | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Scarecrow | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Scarecrow | det |
| 5 | Scarecrow | scarecrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Dorothy | conj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 interested | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 interested | cop |
| 8 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 9 interested | advmod |
| 9 | interested | interested | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 story | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 story | det |
| 12 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 interested | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Woodman | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Woodman | det |
| 15 | Tin | Tin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Woodman | compound |
| 16 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 story | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 knew | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 knew | cc |
| 19 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 knew | advmod |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 knew | nsubj |
| 21 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 interested | conj |
| 22 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 anxious | advmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 anxious | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 anxious | cop |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 anxious | advmod |
| 26 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 knew | ccomp |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 get | mark |
| 28 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 anxious | advcl |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 heart | det |
| 30 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 heart | amod |
| 31 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 get | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 interested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | Dorothy and the Scarecrow | the story of the Tin Woodman | greatly, interested property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | know | past | joints = joint | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Oz | anxious property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | Oz not said here | a new heart | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer heart=Stimulus |
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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