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title: When I began chopping again, my axe slipped and cut off my right leg. — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: When I began chopping again, my axe slipped and cut off my right leg. Who acts: I, 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 80

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When I began chopping again, my axe slipped and cut off my right leg.

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**Who acts:** I, axe · **What happens:** begin, chop, slip, cut off · **To what, where:** right leg

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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 (I, 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:pg55:7:80
# text = When I began chopping again, my axe slipped and cut off my right leg.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
4	chopping	chop	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	slipped	slip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
12	off	off	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **chop** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **slip** | past | my axe |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **cut off** | past | my axe *not said here* | my right leg |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector leg=Eventuality |

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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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