--- title: As soon as he had spoken, the Tin Woodman began to chop, and in a sh… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: As soon as he had spoken, the Tin Woodman began to chop, and in a short time the tree fell over with a crash, whereupon the Scarecrow’s clothes fell out of the branches and rolled off on the ground. Who acts: Woodman, Tin Woodman, tree, clothes. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/15/31/) [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 XIII. The Rescue](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/15/) / 31 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIII. The Rescue, sentence 31 As soon as he had spoken, the Tin Woodman began to chop, and in a short time the tree fell over with a crash, whereupon the Scarecrow’s clothes fell out of the branches and rolled off on the ground. **Who acts:** Woodman, Tin Woodman, tree, clothes · **What happens:** speak, begin, chop, fall over, fall, roll off · **To what, where:** branches, ground · **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 (Woodman, Tin Woodman, tree, clothes), 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:pg55:15:31 # text = As soon as he had spoken, the Tin Woodman began to chop, and in a short time the tree fell over with a crash, whereupon the Scarecrow’s clothes fell out of the branches and rolled off on the ground. 1 As as ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 11 advmod _ _ 3 as as SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 spoken speak VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 Tin Tin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 Woodman Woodman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 chop chop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 23 over over ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 crash crash NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 28 whereupon whereupon ADV WRB PronType=Int 33 advmod _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 Scarecrow scarecrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ’s 's PART POS _ 30 case _ _ 32 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 33 nsubj _ _ 33 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 34 out out ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 branches branch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 rolled roll VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 conj _ _ 40 off off ADP RP _ 39 compound:prt _ _ 41 on on ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past · perfect | Woodman | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **begin** | past | the Tin Woodman | | | | | soon *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **chop** | to-infinitive | the Tin Woodman *not said here* | | | | | | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **fall over** | past | the tree | | | | time | with a crash; over *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **fall** | past | the Scarecrow's clothes | | | the branches | | whereupon *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out branch=Location | | 6 | **roll off** | participle | the Scarecrow's clothes *not said here* | | | the ground | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=Trajectory | 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/pg55/15/30/) - next →: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/15/32/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XIII. The Rescue](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/15/)