--- title: It was a very tall tree, and the trunk was so smooth that no one cou… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: It was a very tall tree, and the trunk was so smooth that no one could climb it; but the Woodman said at once, “I’ll chop it down, and then we can get the Scarecrow’s clothes.” Who acts: Monkeys, trunk, one, Woodman. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIII. The Resc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/15/28/) [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 XIII. The Rescue](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/15/) / 28 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIII. The Rescue, sentence 28 It was a very tall tree, and the trunk was so smooth that no one could climb it; but the Woodman said at once, “I’ll chop it down, and then we can get the Scarecrow’s clothes.” **Who acts:** Monkeys, trunk, one, Woodman, we · **What happens:** be, climb, say, chop down, get · **To what, where:** tall tree, Monkeys, clothes · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Monkeys, trunk, one, Woodman), 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:pg55:15:28 # text = It was a very tall tree, and the trunk was so smooth that no one could climb it; but the Woodman said at once, “I’ll chop it down, and then we can get the Scarecrow’s clothes.” 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 very very ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 trunk trunk NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 smooth smooth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 14 that that SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 15 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 16 det _ _ 16 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 climb climb VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 Woodman Woodman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 25 at at ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 “ " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ’ll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 chop chop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 down down ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 36 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 39 advmod _ _ 37 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 38 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 conj _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 Scarecrow scarecrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ’s 's PART POS _ 41 case _ _ 43 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ” " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | Monkeys | a tall tree | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | past | the trunk | | | | | smooth *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **climb** | could | no one | Monkeys | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location it=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Woodman | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **chop down** *in a quote* | future | the Woodman *= woodman* | Monkeys | | | | | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 6 | **get** *in a quote* | can | we | the Scarecrow's clothes | | | then | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer clothes=Stimulus | 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 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/15/27/) - next →: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/15/29/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XIII. The Rescue](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/15/)