--- title: Now while the tinsmiths had been at work mending the Woodman himself… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: Now while the tinsmiths had been at work mending the Woodman himself, another of the Winkies, who was a goldsmith, had made an axe-handle of solid gold and fitted it to the Woodman’s axe, instead of the old broken handle. Who acts: work, Woodman. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Fran --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/15/29/) [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/) / 29 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIII. The Rescue, sentence 29 Now while the tinsmiths had been at work mending the Woodman himself, another of the Winkies, who was a goldsmith, had made an axe-handle of solid gold and fitted it to the Woodman’s axe, instead of the old broken handle. **Who acts:** work, Woodman · **What happens:** be, mend, make, fit, break · **To what, where:** work, Woodman, goldsmith, tinsmiths, Monkeys, axe 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 (work, 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:pg55:15:29 # text = Now while the tinsmiths had been at work mending the Woodman himself, another of the Winkies, who was a goldsmith, had made an axe-handle of solid gold and fitted it to the Woodman’s axe, instead of the old broken handle. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 25 advmod _ _ 2 while while SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 tinsmiths tinsmith NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 6 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 cop _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 9 mending mend VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 acl _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Woodman Woodman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 17 det _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 Winkies Winky PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 goldsmith goldsmith NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 24 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 26 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 27 axe axe NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 handle handle NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 solid solid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 fitted fit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 to to ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 Woodman Woodman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ’s 's PART POS _ 38 case _ _ 40 axe axe NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 42 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 47 case _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 42 fixed _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 45 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 46 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 47 amod _ _ 47 handle handle NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past · perfect | | | | work | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mend** | gerund | work *not said here* | the Woodman Woodman and another Winkies and a goldsmith | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | past | the Woodman Woodman and another Winkies and a goldsmith | a goldsmith | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **make** | past · perfect · passive | | the tinsmiths | | | now | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary handle=Product | | 5 | **fit** | past | | Monkeys | | | | to the Woodman's axe and the old broken handle *goal* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Patient to axe=Goal | | 6 | **break** | participle | | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | 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 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/15/28/) - next →: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/15/30/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XIII. The Rescue](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/15/)