The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 57

The Woodman set to work at once, and so sharp was his axe that the tree was soon chopped nearly through.

Who acts: Woodman · What happens: set, work, be, chop · To what, where: sharp axe, tree

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 (Woodman), 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	2 Woodman	det
2	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 set	nsubj
3	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 work	mark
5	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 set	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 work	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 axe	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 axe	cc
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 sharp	advmod
11	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 axe	amod
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 axe	cop
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 axe	nmod:poss
14	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 set	conj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 chopped	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tree	det
17	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 chopped	nsubj:pass
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 chopped	aux:pass
19	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 chopped	advmod
20	chopped	chop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 axe	advcl
21	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	22 through	advmod
22	through	through	ADV	_	20 chopped	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	set	past	the Woodman			tree rules
2	work	to-infinitive	the Woodman not said here			vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at once=Theme
3	is a	past	the Woodman not said here	idea's sharp axe		tree rules
4	chop	past · passive		the tree	soon, through property	vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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