The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 86

She thought of a new way to kill my love for the beautiful Munchkin maiden, and made my axe slip again, so that it cut right through my body, splitting me into two halves.

Who acts: enemy, axe, my · What happens: think, kill, make, slip, cut, split · To what, where: love, axe, me, two halves

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (enemy, axe, my), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 way	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 way	det
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 way	amod
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 kill	mark
8	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 way	acl
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 love	nmod:poss
10	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kill	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	15 maiden	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 maiden	det
13	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 maiden	amod
14	Munchkin	Munchkin	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 maiden	compound
15	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kill	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 made	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 made	cc
18	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	conj
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 axe	nmod:poss
20	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	obj
21	slip	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 made	xcomp
22	again	again	ADV	_	21 slip	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 cut	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	27 cut	advmod
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 cut	mark
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 cut	nsubj
27	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	parataxis
28	right	right	ADV	_	31 body	advmod
29	through	through	ADP	_	31 body	case
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 body	nmod:poss
31	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cut	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 splitting	punct
33	splitting	split	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 cut	advcl
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 splitting	obj
35	into	into	ADP	_	37 halves	case
36	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 halves	nummod
37	halves	half	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 splitting	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	enemy			of a new way	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	kill	to-infinitive	enemy not said here	my love		for the beautiful Munchkin maiden	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Theme
3	make	past	enemy not said here	my axe			tree rules
4	slip	infinitive	my axe not said here		again		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	cut	past	axe			through my body	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent through body=Patient
6	split	gerund	axe not said here	me		into two halves result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent i=Patient into half=Result
7	love		my				nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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.

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