--- title: The tree made a good, thick covering to protect them from the dew, a… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: The tree made a good, thick covering to protect them from the dew, and the Tin Woodman chopped a great pile of wood with his axe and Dorothy built a splendid fire that warmed her and made her feel less lonely. Who acts: tree, Tin Woodman, Dorothy, splendid fire. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/9/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Wonderful Wizard of Oz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/) / [Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/9/) / 2 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 2 The tree made a good, thick covering to protect them from the dew, and the Tin Woodman chopped a great pile of wood with his axe and Dorothy built a splendid fire that warmed her and made her feel less lonely. **Who acts:** tree, Tin Woodman, Dorothy, splendid fire · **What happens:** make, protect, chop, build, warm, feel · **To what, where:** good thick covering, houses, great pile, splendid fire, Dorothy This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tree, Tin Woodman, Dorothy, splendid fire), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg55:9:2 # text = The tree made a good, thick covering to protect them from the dew, and the Tin Woodman chopped a great pile of wood with his axe and Dorothy built a splendid fire that warmed her and made her feel less lonely. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 5 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 covering covering NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 protect protect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 11 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 dew dew NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 Tin Tin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 Woodman Woodman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 chopped chop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 pile pile NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 axe axe NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 Dorothy Dorothy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 built build VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 splendid splendid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 35 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 36 warmed warm VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl:relcl _ _ 37 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ _ 40 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ _ 41 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 xcomp _ _ 42 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 43 advmod _ _ 43 lonely lonely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | the tree | a good thick covering | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset covering=Product | | 2 | **protect** | to-infinitive | the tree *not said here* | houses *= house* | | | | from the dew | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary from dew=Theme | | 3 | **chop** | past | the Tin Woodman | a great pile of wood | | | | with tree's axe | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pile=Patient with axe=Instrument | | 4 | **build** | past | Dorothy | a splendid fire | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product | | 5 | **warm** | past | a splendid fire | Dorothy | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient | | 6 | **make** | past | a splendid fire *not said here* | Dorothy | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **feel** | infinitive | Dorothy *not said here* | | | | | lonely *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/9/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/9/3/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/9/)