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title: So the Tin Woodman shouldered his axe and they all passed through th… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: So the Tin Woodman shouldered his axe and they all passed through the forest until they came to the road that was paved with yellow brick. Who acts: Tin Woodman, brains. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, with its dependency tree an
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 50

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So the Tin Woodman shouldered his axe and they all passed through the forest until they came to the road that was paved with yellow brick.

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**Who acts:** Tin Woodman, brains · **What happens:** shoulder, pass, come, pave · **To what, where:** axe, forest, road

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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, brains), 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:pg55:7:50
# text = So the Tin Woodman shouldered his axe and they all passed through the forest until they came to the road that was paved with yellow brick.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
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	shouldered	shoulder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	advmod	_	_
11	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	through	through	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	paved	pave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	brick	brick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shoulder** | past | the Tin Woodman | Scarecrow's axe |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent axe=Theme |
| 2 | **pass** | past | brains *= brain* |  |  | the forest |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through forest=Location |
| 3 | **come** | past | brains *= brain* |  |  | the road |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to road=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **pave** | past · passive |  | the road |  |  |  | with yellow brick | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with brick=Theme |

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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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