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title: So the Woodman took his axe and began to chop down small trees to ma… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: So the Woodman took his axe and began to chop down small trees to make a raft, and while he was busy at this the Scarecrow found on the riverbank a tree full of fine fruit. Who acts: Woodman, tree. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz,
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 83

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So the Woodman took his axe and began to chop down small trees to make a raft, and while he was busy at this the Scarecrow found on the riverbank a tree full of fine fruit.

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**Who acts:** Woodman, tree · **What happens:** take, begin, chop down, make, be, find · **To what, where:** axe, small trees, raft, this, Scarecrow, riverbank

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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, tree), 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:pg55:9:83
# text = So the Woodman took his axe and began to chop down small trees to make a raft, and while he was busy at this the Scarecrow found on the riverbank a tree full of fine fruit.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	chop	chop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	down	down	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	raft	raft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	obl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
28	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	riverbank	riverbank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
34	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the Woodman | tree's axe |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme |
| 2 | **begin** | past | the Woodman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **chop down** | to-infinitive | the Woodman *not said here* | small trees |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | the Woodman *not said here* | a raft |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset raft=Product |
| 5 | **is** | past | tree |  |  | this |  | busy *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **find** | participle |  | the Scarecrow *not said here* |  | the riverbank |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |

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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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