--- title: “This is bad,” said the Tin Woodman, “for if we cannot get to the la… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: “This is bad,” said the Tin Woodman, “for if we cannot get to the land we shall be carried into the country of the Wicked Witch of the West, and she will enchant us and make us her slaves.” Who acts: This, Tin Woodman, we, land. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VI --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/10/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Wonderful Wizard of Oz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/) / [Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/10/) / 9 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field, sentence 9 “This is bad,” said the Tin Woodman, “for if we cannot get to the land we shall be carried into the country of the Wicked Witch of the West, and she will enchant us and make us her slaves.” **Who acts:** This, Tin Woodman, we, land, Woodman · **What happens:** be, say, not get, carry, enchant, make · **To what, where:** we, country, us, slaves · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, Tin Woodman, we, land), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg55:10:9 # text = “This is bad,” said the Tin Woodman, “for if we cannot get to the land we shall be carried into the country of the Wicked Witch of the West, and she will enchant us and make us her slaves.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 This this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 Tin Tin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 Woodman Woodman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 12 “ " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 for for SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 14 if if SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 15 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 16 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 parataxis _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 carried carry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 acl:relcl _ _ 26 into into ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 Wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 Witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 West West PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 38 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 39 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 enchant enchant VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 parataxis _ _ 41 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 conj _ _ 44 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 43 obj _ _ 45 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 slaves slave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ” " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | This | | | | | bad *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Tin Woodman | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **get** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | can | we | | | | | to the land *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to land=Result | | 4 | **carry** *in a quote* | shall · passive | the land *not said here* | we | | the country of the Wicked Witch of the West | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **enchant** *in a quote* | future | Woodman | us | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus we=Experiencer | | 6 | **make** *in a quote* | infinitive | Woodman *not said here* | Woodman's slaves | us | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset we=Beneficiary slave=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. - ← previous: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/10/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/10/10/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/10/)