--- title: “Well, in a few minutes I shall be all melted, and you will have the… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: “Well, in a few minutes I shall be all melted, and you will have the castle to yourself. Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/14/167/) [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/) / 167 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 167 “Well, in a few minutes I shall be all melted, and you will have the castle to yourself. **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** melt, have · **To what, where:** Dorothy, castle, yourself 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 (you), 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:pg55:14:167 # text = “Well, in a few minutes I shall be all melted, and you will have the castle to yourself. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Well well INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl:unmarked _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 9 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 10 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 12 aux:pass _ _ 11 all all ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 melted melt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **melt** *in a quote* | shall · passive | | Dorothy | | | minute | all *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | | 2 | **have** *in a quote* | future | you | the castle | yourself | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=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. - ← previous: [sentence 166](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/14/166/) - next →: [sentence 168](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/14/168/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/14/)