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title: The Tin Woodman gave a sigh of satisfaction and lowered his axe, whi… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: The Tin Woodman gave a sigh of satisfaction and lowered his axe, which he leaned against the tree. Who acts: Tin Woodman, axe. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 32

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The Tin Woodman gave a sigh of satisfaction and lowered his axe, which he leaned against the tree.

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**Who acts:** Tin Woodman, axe · **What happens:** give, lower, learn, sigh · **To what, where:** sigh, axe, satisfaction

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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 (Tin Woodman, axe), 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:pg55:7:32
# text = The Tin Woodman gave a sigh of satisfaction and lowered his axe, which he leaned against the tree.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Tin	Tin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sigh	sigh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	satisfaction	satisfaction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	lowered	lower	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	leaned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	against	against	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | the Tin Woodman | a sigh of satisfaction |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sigh=Theme |
| 2 | **lower** | past | the Tin Woodman *not said here* | Scarecrow's axe |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme |
| 3 | **learn** | past | Scarecrow's axe |  |  |  |  | against the tree | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **sigh** |  |  | satisfaction |  |  |  |  | nom sigh «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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