--- title: When you came to me, I was willing to promise anything if you would… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: When you came to me, I was willing to promise anything if you would only do away with the other Witch; but, now that you have melted her, I am ashamed to say that I cannot keep my promises.” Who acts: you, I, my. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XV. The Discovery --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/17/128/) [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 XV. The Discovery of Oz, the T…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/17/) / 128 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 128 When you came to me, I was willing to promise anything if you would only do away with the other Witch; but, now that you have melted her, I am ashamed to say that I cannot keep my promises.” **Who acts:** you, I, my · **What happens:** come, be, promise, do away, melt, say · **To what, where:** me, anything, Witch, promises · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, my), 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:pg55:17:128 # text = When you came to me, I was willing to promise anything if you would only do away with the other Witch; but, now that you have melted her, I am ashamed to say that I cannot keep my promises.” 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 advcl _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 willing willing ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 promise promise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 11 obj _ _ 13 if if SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 only only ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 ccomp _ _ 18 away away ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 Witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 24 but but CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 26 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 30 advmod _ _ 27 that that SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 melted melt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 31 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 33 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 35 ashamed ashamed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 xcomp _ _ 38 that that SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 39 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 40 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 41 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 42 advmod _ _ 42 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 ccomp _ _ 43 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 promises promise NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ” " PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | you | | me | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **is** | past | I | | | | | willing *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **promise** *speech: promise* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | anything | | | | | vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent anything=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **do away** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | you | | | | | with the other Witch; away *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **melt** | present · perfect | you | Witch | | | now | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient she=Result | | 6 | **is** | present | I | | | | | ashamed *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **not** **keep** | can | I | my promises | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme | | 9 | **promise** | | my | | | | | | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=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. 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