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title: But the Tin Woodman set to work with his axe and chopped so well tha… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: But the Tin Woodman set to work with his axe and chopped so well that soon he cleared a passage for the entire party. Who acts: Tin Woodman, road. 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 eve
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 54

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But the Tin Woodman set to work with his axe and chopped so well that soon he cleared a passage for the entire party.

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**Who acts:** Tin Woodman, road · **What happens:** set, work, chop, clear · **To what, where:** passage

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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, road), 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:pg55:7:54
# text = But the Tin Woodman set to work with his axe and chopped so well that soon he cleared a passage for the entire party.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
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	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	chopped	chop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	cleared	clear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	entire	entire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | past | the Tin Woodman |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **work** | to-infinitive | the Tin Woodman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with road's axe | vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with axe=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **chop** | past | the Tin Woodman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **clear** | past | road | a passage |  |  |  | for the entire party; soon *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent passage=Product for party=Beneficiary |

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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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