--- title: So the Woodman raised his axe, and as the Wildcat ran by he gave it… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: So the Woodman raised his axe, and as the Wildcat ran by he gave it a quick blow that cut the beast’s head clean off from its body, and it rolled over at his feet in two pieces. Who acts: Woodman, Wildcat, quick blow, head. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IX. The --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/11/5/) [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/) / 5 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 5 So the Woodman raised his axe, and as the Wildcat ran by he gave it a quick blow that cut the beast’s head clean off from its body, and it rolled over at his feet in two pieces. **Who acts:** Woodman, Wildcat, quick blow, head · **What happens:** raise, run by, give, cut, clean off, roll over · **To what, where:** axe, body, feet 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 (Woodman, Wildcat, quick blow, head), 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:pg55:11:5 # text = So the Woodman raised his axe, and as the Wildcat ran by he gave it a quick blow that cut the beast’s head clean off from its body, and it rolled over at his feet in two pieces. 1 So so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Woodman Woodman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 raised raise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 axe axe NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 9 as as SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Wildcat Wildcat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 13 by by ADP IN _ 12 obl _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 quick quick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 blow blow NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 20 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 21 cut cut VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 beast beast NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ’s 's PART POS _ 23 case _ _ 25 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 clean clean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 parataxis _ _ 27 off off ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 28 from from ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 rolled roll VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 35 over over ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 at at ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 41 nummod _ _ 41 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **raise** | past | the Woodman | mouse's axe | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme | | 2 | **run by** | past | the Wildcat | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **give** | past | Wildcat | axe | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient blow=Theme | | 4 | **cut** | past | a quick blow | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **clean off** | present | the beast's head | | | head's body | | | vn clear-10.3 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from body=Source | | 6 | **roll over** | past | head | | | Wildcat's feet | | in two pieces; over *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme at foot=Source in piece=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 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/11/4/) - next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/11/6/) - ↑ back to [Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/11/)