The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 31
But if I am on your back it will not matter so much, for the fall would not hurt me at all.”
Who acts: it, fall · What happens: not matter, not hurt · To what, where: me, all
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 (it, fall), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 matter | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 am | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 am | nsubj |
| 4 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 matter | advcl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 back | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 back | nmod:poss |
| 7 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 am | obl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 matter | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 matter | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 matter | advmod |
| 11 | matter | matter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 much | advmod |
| 13 | much | much | ADV | _ | 11 matter | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hurt | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 hurt | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fall | det |
| 17 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hurt | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 hurt | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 hurt | advmod |
| 20 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 matter | advcl |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 hurt | obj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 all | case |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 hurt | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 matter | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 matter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not matter | future | it | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not hurt | would | the fall | me | all | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Patient |
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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