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description: The tinsmiths looked the Woodman over carefully and then answered that they thought they could mend him so he would be as good as ever. Who acts: tinsmiths, Woodman. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIII. The Rescue, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIII. The Rescue, sentence 19

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The tinsmiths looked the Woodman over carefully and then answered that they thought they could mend him so he would be as good as ever.

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**Who acts:** tinsmiths, Woodman · **What happens:** look, answer, think, mend, be · **To what, where:** Woodman · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIII. The Rescue. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tinsmiths, Woodman), 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:pg55:15:19
# text = The tinsmiths looked the Woodman over carefully and then answered that they thought they could mend him so he would be as good as ever.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tinsmiths	tinsmith	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	over	over	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
10	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	mend	mend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
22	as	as	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	parataxis	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | the tinsmiths | the Woodman |  |  |  | carefully *property* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme woodman=Attribute |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the tinsmiths *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | tinsmiths *= tinsmith* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **mend** | could | tinsmiths *= tinsmith* | Woodman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | would | Woodman |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |

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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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