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title: So they called the yellow Winkies and asked them if they would help… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: So they called the yellow Winkies and asked them if they would help to rescue their friends, and the Winkies said that they would be delighted to do all in their power for Dorothy, who had set them free from bondage. Who acts: friends, Winkies. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank 
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIII. The Rescue, sentence 8

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So they called the yellow Winkies and asked them if they would help to rescue their friends, and the Winkies said that they would be delighted to do all in their power for Dorothy, who had set them free from bondage.

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**Who acts:** friends, Winkies · **What happens:** call, ask, help, rescue, say, be · **To what, where:** yellow Winkies, friends, power, bondage · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIII. The Rescue. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friends, Winkies), 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:pg55:15:8
# text = So they called the yellow Winkies and asked them if they would help to rescue their friends, and the Winkies said that they would be delighted to do all in their power for Dorothy, who had set them free from bondage.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Winkies	Winky	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	rescue	rescue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Winkies	winky	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
27	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	advcl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
30	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	det	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl	_	_
40	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	_
41	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	xcomp	_	_
42	from	from	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	bondage	bondage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | friends *= friend* |  | the yellow Winkies |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent winky=Recipient |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | friends *= friend* *not said here* |  | friends *= friend* |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **help** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | friends *= friend* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **rescue** | to-infinitive | friends *= friend* *not said here* | friends's friends |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Winkies |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | would | Winkies *= winky* |  |  |  |  | delighted *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **do** | to-infinitive | Winkies *= winky* *not said here* | friends's power |  |  |  | for Dorothy | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Eventuality |
| 8 | **set** | past · perfect · passive |  | friends's power |  | bondage |  | free *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme they=Destination |

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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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