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title: The Tin Woodman began to use his axe at once, and, just as the two K… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: The Tin Woodman began to use his axe at once, and, just as the two Kalidahs were nearly across, the tree fell with a crash into the gulf, carrying the ugly, snarling brutes with it, and both were dashed to pieces on the sharp rocks at the bottom. Who acts: Tin Woodman, two Kalidahs. A sentence of «T
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 72

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The Tin Woodman began to use his axe at once, and, just as the two Kalidahs were nearly across, the tree fell with a crash into the gulf, carrying the ugly, snarling brutes with it, and both were dashed to pieces on the sharp rocks at the bottom.

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**Who acts:** Tin Woodman, two Kalidahs · **What happens:** begin, use, be, fall, carry, snarl · **To what, where:** axe, gulf, ugly, brutes, both, sharp rocks

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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 (Tin Woodman, two Kalidahs), 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:pg55:9:72
# text = The Tin Woodman began to use his axe at once, and, just as the two Kalidahs were nearly across, the tree fell with a crash into the gulf, carrying the ugly, snarling brutes with it, and both were dashed to pieces on the sharp rocks at the bottom.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Tin	Tin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	just	just	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	Kalidahs	kalidah	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	across	across	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	crash	crash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	into	into	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	gulf	gulf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	snarling	snarl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	conj	_	_
38	brutes	brute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
43	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	45	nsubj:pass	_	_
44	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux:pass	_	_
45	dashed	dash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
46	to	to	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obl	_	_
48	on	on	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obl	_	_
52	at	at	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | the Tin Woodman |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **use** | to-infinitive | the Tin Woodman *not said here* | Lion's axe |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | across, nearly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **fall** | past | the two Kalidahs |  |  |  |  | into the gulf *result*; with a crash | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into gulf=Result |
| 5 | **carry** | gerund | the two Kalidahs *not said here* | the ugly |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ugly=Theme |
| 6 | **snarl** | gerund | the two Kalidahs *not said here* | brutes |  |  |  | with gulf | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent brute=Theme |
| 7 | **dash** | past · passive |  | both |  | the sharp rocks at the bottom |  | to pieces *result* | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to piece=Result |

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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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