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title: Once, indeed, the Tin Woodman stepped upon a beetle that was crawlin… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: Once, indeed, the Tin Woodman stepped upon a beetle that was crawling along the road, and killed the poor little thing. Who acts: Tin Woodman, beetle. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 79

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Once, indeed, the Tin Woodman stepped upon a beetle that was crawling along the road, and killed the poor little thing.

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**Who acts:** Tin Woodman, beetle · **What happens:** step, crawl, kill · **To what, where:** road, poor little thing

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion. 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, beetle), 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:pg55:8:79
# text = Once, indeed, the Tin Woodman stepped upon a beetle that was crawling along the road, and killed the poor little thing.
1	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Tin	Tin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	stepped	step	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	beetle	beetle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	crawling	crawl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	along	along	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **step** | past | the Tin Woodman |  |  |  |  | upon a beetle; indeed, once *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon beetle=Trajectory |
| 2 | **crawl** | past · progressive | a beetle |  |  | the road |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along road=Trajectory |
| 3 | **kill** | past | the Tin Woodman *not said here* | the poor little thing |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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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