--- title: With Dorothy hard at work, the Witch thought she would go into the c… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: With Dorothy hard at work, the Witch thought she would go into the courtyard and harness the Cowardly Lion like a horse; it would amuse her, she was sure, to make him draw her chariot whenever she wished to go to drive. Who acts: Witch, horse, Dorothy, Scarecrow. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/14/126/) [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 XII. The Search for the Wicked…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/14/) / 126 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 126 With Dorothy hard at work, the Witch thought she would go into the courtyard and harness the Cowardly Lion like a horse; it would amuse her, she was sure, to make him draw her chariot whenever she wished to go to drive. **Who acts:** Witch, horse, Dorothy, Scarecrow · **What happens:** think, go, amuse, be, make, draw · **To what, where:** Cowardly Lion, courtyard, Witch, Scarecrow, chariot · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Witch, horse, Dorothy, Scarecrow), 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:pg55:14:126 # text = With Dorothy hard at work, the Witch thought she would go into the courtyard and harness the Cowardly Lion like a horse; it would amuse her, she was sure, to make him draw her chariot whenever she wished to go to drive. 1 With with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 Dorothy Dorothy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 Witch Witch PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ _ 13 into into ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 courtyard courtyard NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 harness harness NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 Cowardly Cowardly PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 Lion Lion PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl:unmarked _ _ 21 like like ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 amuse amuse VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ _ 28 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 conj _ _ 36 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 draw draw VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 xcomp _ _ 38 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 chariot chariot NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 whenever whenever ADV WRB PronType=Rel 42 advmod _ _ 41 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 wished wish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 advcl _ _ 43 to to PART TO _ 44 mark _ _ 44 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 xcomp _ _ 45 to to PART TO _ 46 mark _ _ 46 drive drive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the Witch | | | | | with work | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **go** | would | Witch | the Cowardly Lion | | the courtyard and harness | | like a horse | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into courtyard=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **amuse** | would | horse | Witch | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | | 4 | **is** | past | Dorothy | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **make** | to-infinitive | horse *not said here* | Scarecrow | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **draw** | infinitive | Scarecrow *not said here* | Dorothy's chariot | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chariot=Theme | | 7 | **wish** | past | Dorothy | | | | | whenever *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 8 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Dorothy *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 9 | **drive** | to-infinitive | Dorothy *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=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. - ← previous: [sentence 125](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/14/125/) - next →: [sentence 127](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/14/127/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/14/)