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title: The Tin Woodman lay down on his bed from force of habit, for he reme… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: The Tin Woodman lay down on his bed from force of habit, for he remembered when he was made of flesh; but not being able to sleep, he passed the night moving his joints up and down to make sure they kept in good working order. Who acts: Tin Woodman, Woodman, joints. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wiza
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 40

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The Tin Woodman lay down on his bed from force of habit, for he remembered when he was made of flesh; but not being able to sleep, he passed the night moving his joints up and down to make sure they kept in good working order.

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**Who acts:** Tin Woodman, Woodman, joints · **What happens:** lie down, remember, make, not be, sleep, pass · **To what, where:** bed, Woodman, joints, good working order

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of 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, Woodman, joints), 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:pg55:13:40
# text = The Tin Woodman lay down on his bed from force of habit, for he remembered when he was made of flesh; but not being able to sleep, he passed the night moving his joints up and down to make sure they kept in good working order.
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	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	habit	habit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	20	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	ccomp	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
26	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	cop	_	_
27	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	advcl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl:unmarked	_	_
35	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	advcl	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	joints	joint	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
38	up	up	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	down	down	ADV	RB	_	38	conj	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	advcl	_	_
43	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	xcomp	_	_
44	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	ccomp	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
48	working	working	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
49	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie down** | past | the Tin Woodman |  |  | Woodman's bed |  | from force of habit; down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bed=Location |
| 2 | **remember** | past | Woodman |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | past · passive |  | Woodman |  |  |  | of flesh | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 4 | **not** **is** | gerund | Woodman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | Woodman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **pass** | past | Woodman |  |  |  | night |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **move** | gerund | Woodman *not said here* | Woodman's joints |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent joint=Theme |
| 8 | **make** | to-infinitive | Woodman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 9 | **keep** | past | joints *= joint* |  |  | good working order |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in order=Location |

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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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