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title: One of the big trees had been partly chopped through, and standing b… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: One of the big trees had been partly chopped through, and standing beside it, with an uplifted axe in his hands, was a man made entirely of tin. Who acts: standing. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, with its dependency tree and the
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 17

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One of the big trees had been partly chopped through, and standing beside it, with an uplifted axe in his hands, was a man made entirely of tin.

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**Who acts:** standing · **What happens:** chop, stand, uplift, be, make · **To what, where:** One, cry, man

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (standing), 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:pg55:7:17
# text = One of the big trees had been partly chopped through, and standing beside it, with an uplifted axe in his hands, was a man made entirely of tin.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	partly	partly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	chopped	chop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	through	through	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
13	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	csubj	_	_
14	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	uplifted	uplift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
28	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
29	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chop** | past · perfect · passive |  | One of the big trees |  |  |  | partly, through *property* | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **stand** | gerund |  |  |  | cry |  | with a uplifted axe in sunshine's hands | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside it=Location |
| 3 | **uplift** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is a** | past | standing | a man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** | participle |  | a man *not said here* |  |  |  | of tin; entirely *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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