--- title: When the Tin Woodman walked about he felt his heart rattling around… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: When the Tin Woodman walked about he felt his heart rattling around in his breast; and he told Dorothy he had discovered it to be a kinder and more tender heart than the one he had owned when he was made of flesh. Who acts: Tin Woodman, Woodman, heart. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/19/3/) [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 XVII. How the Balloon Was Laun…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/19/) / 3 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched, sentence 3 When the Tin Woodman walked about he felt his heart rattling around in his breast; and he told Dorothy he had discovered it to be a kinder and more tender heart than the one he had owned when he was made of flesh. **Who acts:** Tin Woodman, Woodman, heart · **What happens:** walk, feel, rattle around, tell, discover, be · **To what, where:** heart, breast, Dorothy, kinder tender heart, one, Woodman · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tin Woodman, Woodman, heart), 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:pg55:19:3 # text = When the Tin Woodman walked about he felt his heart rattling around in his breast; and he told Dorothy he had discovered it to be a kinder and more tender heart than the one he had owned when he was made of flesh. 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 5 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 Tin Tin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Woodman Woodman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 6 about about SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 rattling rattle VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 acl _ _ 12 around around ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 breast breast NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 20 Dorothy Dorothy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 iobj _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 discovered discover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 19 ccomp _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 26 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 32 cop _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 28 kinder kind ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 32 amod _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 28 conj _ _ 31 tender tender NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 advcl _ _ 33 than than ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 36 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 owned own VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 35 acl:relcl _ _ 39 when when SCONJ WRB _ 42 mark _ _ 40 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 41 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux:pass _ _ 42 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 advcl _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 flesh flesh NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **walk** | past | the Tin Woodman | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **feel** | past | Woodman | Woodman's heart | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme | | 3 | **rattle around** | gerund | Woodman's heart *not said here* | | | Woodman's breast | | around *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in breast=Location | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Woodman | | Dorothy | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent dorothy=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **discover** | past · perfect | Woodman | heart | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 6 | **is a** | to-infinitive | Woodman *not said here* | a kinder tender heart | | | | than the one | tree rules | | 7 | **own** | past · perfect | Woodman | the one *not said here* | | | | | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot one=Theme | | 8 | **make** | past · passive | | Woodman | | | | of flesh | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | 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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/19/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/19/4/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/19/)