The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 72

The Tin Woodman began to use his axe at once, and, just as the two Kalidahs were nearly across, the tree fell with a crash into the gulf, carrying the ugly, snarling brutes with it, and both were dashed to pieces on the sharp rocks at the bottom.

Who acts: Tin Woodman, two Kalidahs · What happens: begin, use, be, fall, carry, snarl · To what, where: axe, gulf, ugly, brutes, both, sharp rocks

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, two Kalidahs), 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	3 Woodman	det
2	Tin	Tin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Woodman	compound
3	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 use	mark
6	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 axe	nmod:poss
8	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 use	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 once	case
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 use	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 fell	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 fell	cc
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Kalidahs	punct
14	just	just	ADV	_	18 Kalidahs	advmod
15	as	as	ADP	_	18 Kalidahs	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Kalidahs	det
17	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 Kalidahs	nummod
18	Kalidahs	kalidah	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 fell	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 across	cop
20	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	21 across	advmod
21	across	across	ADV	_	18 Kalidahs	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 across	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 tree	det
24	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fell	nsubj
25	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	parataxis
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 crash	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 crash	det
28	crash	crash	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fell	obl
29	into	into	ADP	_	31 gulf	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 gulf	det
31	gulf	gulf	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fell	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 carrying	punct
33	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 fell	advcl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 ugly	det
35	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 carrying	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 snarling	punct
37	snarling	snarl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 carrying	conj
38	brutes	brute	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 snarling	obj
39	with	with	ADP	_	40 it	case
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 snarling	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 dashed	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 dashed	cc
43	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	45 dashed	nsubj:pass
44	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 dashed	aux:pass
45	dashed	dash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 began	parataxis
46	to	to	ADP	_	47 pieces	case
47	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 dashed	obl
48	on	on	ADP	_	51 rocks	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 rocks	det
50	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 rocks	amod
51	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 dashed	obl
52	at	at	ADP	_	54 bottom	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 bottom	det
54	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 rocks	nmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the Tin Woodman				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	use	to-infinitive	the Tin Woodman not said here	Lion's axe			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Patient
3	is	past				across, nearly property	tree rules
4	fall	past	the two Kalidahs			into the gulf result; with a crash	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into gulf=Result
5	carry	gerund	the two Kalidahs not said here	the ugly			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ugly=Theme
6	snarl	gerund	the two Kalidahs not said here	brutes		with gulf	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent brute=Theme
7	dash	past · passive		both	the sharp rocks at the bottom	to pieces result	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to piece=Result

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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