The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 91

“My body shone so brightly in the sun that I felt very proud of it and it did not matter now if my axe slipped, for it could not cut me.

Who acts: body, enemy, it, axe · What happens: shine, feel, not matter, slip, not cut · To what, where: sun, enemy

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 (body, enemy, it, axe), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 shone	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 body	nmod:poss
3	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shone	nsubj
4	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 brightly	advmod
6	brightly	brightly	ADV	_	4 shone	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 sun	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sun	det
9	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shone	obl
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 felt	obj
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 felt	nsubj
12	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sun	acl:relcl
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 proud	advmod
14	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 felt	xcomp
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 proud	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 matter	cc
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 matter	nsubj
19	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 matter	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 matter	advmod
21	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 felt	conj
22	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 matter	advmod
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 slipped	mark
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 axe	nmod:poss
25	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 slipped	nsubj
26	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 matter	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 cut	punct
28	for	for	SCONJ	_	32 cut	mark
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 cut	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 cut	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 cut	advmod
32	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 slipped	parataxis
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 cut	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine in a quote	past	My body		the sun		brightly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sun=Location
2	feel in a quote	past	enemy	the sun			proud property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme
3	not matter in a quote	past · do-support	it			now		vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
4	slip a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	my axe					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	not cut in a quote	could	axe	enemy				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material i=Product

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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