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title: But the raft was nearly done, and after the Tin Woodman had cut a fe… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: But the raft was nearly done, and after the Tin Woodman had cut a few more logs and fastened them together with wooden pins, they were ready to start. Who acts: logs. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 4

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But the raft was nearly done, and after the Tin Woodman had cut a few more logs and fastened them together with wooden pins, they were ready to start.

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**Who acts:** logs · **What happens:** do, cut, fasten, be, start · **To what, where:** raft, Tin Woodman, logs

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (logs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg55:10:4
# text = But the raft was nearly done, and after the Tin Woodman had cut a few more logs and fastened them together with wooden pins, they were ready to start.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	raft	raft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Tin	Tin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	amod	_	_
18	logs	log	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	together	together	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	pins	pin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past · passive |  | the raft |  |  |  | nearly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **cut** | past · perfect · passive |  | the Tin Woodman |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary log=Product |
| 3 | **fasten** | past |  | logs *= log* |  |  |  | with wooden pins; together *property* | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent they=Patient with pin=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **is** | past | logs *= log* |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **start** | to-infinitive | logs *= log* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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.

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**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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