--- title: He seized his axe, which he had made very sharp, and as the leader o… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: He seized his axe, which he had made very sharp, and as the leader of the wolves came on the Tin Woodman swung his arm and chopped the wolf’s head from its body, so that it immediately died. Who acts: Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, head. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/14/31/) [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 XII. The Search for the Wicked…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/14/) / 31 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 31 He seized his axe, which he had made very sharp, and as the leader of the wolves came on the Tin Woodman swung his arm and chopped the wolf’s head from its body, so that it immediately died. **Who acts:** Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, head · **What happens:** seize, make, come, swing, chop, die · **To what, where:** axe, arm, head, body This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, 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:pg55:14:31 # text = He seized his axe, which he had made very sharp, and as the leader of the wolves came on the Tin Woodman swung his arm and chopped the wolf’s head from its body, so that it immediately died. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 seized seize VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 axe axe NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl:relcl _ _ 10 very very ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 14 as as ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 leader leader NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 wolves wolf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 20 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 21 on on SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 Tin Tin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 Woodman Woodman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 swung swing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 chopped chop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 wolf wolf NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ’s 's PART POS _ 31 case _ _ 33 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 34 from from ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 38 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 42 mark _ _ 39 that that SCONJ IN _ 38 fixed _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 41 immediately immediately ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 42 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **seize** | past | Scarecrow | Scarecrow's axe | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme | | 2 | **make** | past · perfect · passive | | Scarecrow's axe | | | | sharp *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 3 | **come** | past | | | | | | as the leader of the wolves | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **swing** | past | the Tin Woodman | Scarecrow's arm | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | | 5 | **chop** | past | the Tin Woodman *not said here* | the wolf's head | | head's body | | | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent head=Patient from body=Source | | 6 | **die** | past | head | | | | | immediately *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/14/30/) - next →: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/14/32/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/14/)