The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 54

If the Tin Woodman can chop it down, so that it will fall to the other side, we can walk across it easily.”

Who acts: Tin Woodman, ditch, we · What happens: chop down, fall, walk · To what, where: ditch

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tin Woodman, ditch, we), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 chop	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Woodman	det
3	Tin	Tin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Woodman	compound
4	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 chop	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 chop	aux
6	chop	chop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 fall	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 chop	obj
8	down	down	ADP	_	6 chop	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fall	punct
10	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	14 fall	mark
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 so	fixed
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fall	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 fall	aux
14	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	to	to	ADP	_	18 side	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 side	det
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 side	amod
18	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fall	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 walk	punct
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 walk	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 walk	aux
22	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 fall	conj
23	across	across	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 walk	obl
25	easily	easily	ADV	_	22 walk	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 fall	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 fall	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	chop down a condition, not said to happen	can	the Tin Woodman	ditch			vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	fall	future	ditch			to the other side	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to side=Theme
3	walk	can	we		ditch	easily property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across it=Trajectory

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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