--- title: The Tin Woodman was about to reply when he heard a low growl, and tu… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: The Tin Woodman was about to reply when he heard a low growl, and turning his head (which worked beautifully on hinges) he saw a strange beast come bounding over the grass toward them. Who acts: Tin Woodman, river, head, turning. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter I --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/11/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Wonderful Wizard of Oz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/) / [Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/11/) / 2 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 2 The Tin Woodman was about to reply when he heard a low growl, and turning his head (which worked beautifully on hinges) he saw a strange beast come bounding over the grass toward them. **Who acts:** Tin Woodman, river, head, turning · **What happens:** be, reply, hear, turn, work, see · **To what, where:** low growl, strange beast, grass This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice. 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, river, head, turning), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg55:11:2 # text = The Tin Woodman was about to reply when he heard a low growl, and turning his head (which worked beautifully on hinges) he saw a strange beast come bounding over the grass toward them. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Tin Tin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Woodman Woodman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 about about ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 reply reply VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 growl growl NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 16 turning turn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 31 csubj _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 19 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 21 worked work VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 parataxis _ _ 22 beautifully beautifully ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 hinges hinge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 21 punct _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 ccomp _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 beast beast NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 32 bounding bound VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 31 xcomp _ _ 33 over over ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 toward toward ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the Tin Woodman | | | | | about *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | the Tin Woodman *not said here* | | | | | | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **hear** | past | river | a low growl | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer growl=Stimulus | | 4 | **turn** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **work** | past | | | | | | on hinges; beautifully *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on hinge=Theme | | 6 | **see** | past | river's head | a strange beast | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beast=Stimulus | | 7 | **come** | present | turning | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **bound** | gerund | turning *not said here* | | | the grass | | toward hinges *= hinge* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over grass=Trajectory | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/11/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/11/3/) - ↑ back to [Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/11/)