The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 83

So the Woodman took his axe and began to chop down small trees to make a raft, and while he was busy at this the Scarecrow found on the riverbank a tree full of fine fruit.

Who acts: Woodman, tree · What happens: take, begin, chop down, make, be, find · To what, where: axe, small trees, raft, this, Scarecrow, riverbank

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, 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 took	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Woodman	det
3	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 axe	nmod:poss
6	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 began	cc
8	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 chop	mark
10	chop	chop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 began	xcomp
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 chop	compound:prt
12	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 trees	amod
13	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 chop	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 make	mark
15	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 chop	advcl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 raft	det
17	raft	raft	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 make	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 busy	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 busy	cc
20	while	while	SCONJ	_	23 busy	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 busy	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 busy	cop
23	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 took	conj
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 this	case
25	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 busy	obl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Scarecrow	det
27	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 busy	nsubj
28	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 Scarecrow	acl
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 riverbank	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 riverbank	det
31	riverbank	riverbank	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 found	obl
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 tree	det
33	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 riverbank	appos
34	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 tree	amod
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 fruit	case
36	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 fruit	amod
37	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 full	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	the Woodman	tree's axe			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme
2	begin	past	the Woodman not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	chop down	to-infinitive	the Woodman not said here	small trees			vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient
4	make	to-infinitive	the Woodman not said here	a raft			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset raft=Product
5	is	past	tree		this	busy property	tree rules
6	find	participle		the Scarecrow not said here	the riverbank		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

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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