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title: “Bring that beast to me, for I have a mind to harness him like a hor… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: “Bring that beast to me, for I have a mind to harness him like a horse, and make him work.” Who acts: you, Wicked Witch, mind, Cap. 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.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 97

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“Bring that beast to me, for I have a mind to harness him like a horse, and make him work.”

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**Who acts:** you, Wicked Witch, mind, Cap · **What happens:** bring, have, harness, make, work · **To what, where:** beast, Wicked Witch, mind, Cap

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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, Wicked Witch, mind, Cap), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg55:14:97
# text = “Bring that beast to me, for I have a mind to harness him like a horse, and make him work.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	harness	harness	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | that beast | the Wicked Witch *= witch* |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent beast=Theme to i=Destination |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | the Wicked Witch *= witch* | a mind |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **harness** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | a mind *not said here* |  | Cap |  |  | like a horse | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Destination |
| 4 | **make** *in a quote* | infinitive | the Wicked Witch *= witch* *not said here* | Cap |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **work** *in a quote* | infinitive | Cap *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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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