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title: The Woodman set to work at once, and so sharp was his axe that the t… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: The Woodman set to work at once, and so sharp was his axe that the tree was soon chopped nearly through. Who acts: Woodman. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 57

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The Woodman set to work at once, and so sharp was his axe that the tree was soon chopped nearly through.

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**Who acts:** Woodman · **What happens:** set, work, be, chop · **To what, where:** sharp axe, tree

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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 (Woodman), 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:pg55:9:57
# text = The Woodman set to work at once, and so sharp was his axe that the tree was soon chopped nearly through.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
19	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
20	chopped	chop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
21	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	through	through	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | past | the Woodman |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **work** | to-infinitive | the Woodman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at once=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past | the Woodman *not said here* | idea's sharp axe |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **chop** | past · passive |  | the tree |  |  |  | soon, through *property* | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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