The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 71
He had been thinking what was best to be done, and now he asked the Woodman to chop away the end of the tree that rested on their side of the ditch.
Who acts: Lion, tree · What happens: think, be, do, ask, chop away, rest · To what, where: Woodman, end, side · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Lion, tree), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thinking | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thinking | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 thinking | aux |
| 4 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 best | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 best | cop |
| 7 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 thinking | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 done | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 done | aux:pass |
| 10 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 best | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 asked | cc |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 asked | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 asked | nsubj |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thinking | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Woodman | det |
| 17 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | iobj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 chop | mark |
| 19 | chop | chop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 asked | ccomp |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 chop | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 end | det |
| 22 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 chop | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 tree | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 tree | det |
| 25 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 end | nmod |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 rested | nsubj |
| 27 | rested | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 tree | acl:relcl |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 side | case |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 side | nmod:poss |
| 30 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 rested | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 ditch | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 ditch | det |
| 33 | ditch | ditch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 side | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thinking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past · perfect · progressive | Lion | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | good property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive · passive | vn act-114-1 «NP V» | ||||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | Lion | the Woodman | now | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent woodman=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 5 | chop away not said to happen | to-infinitive | the end of the tree | away property | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Patient | ||||
| 6 | rest | past | the tree | arms's side of the ditch | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location |
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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