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title: “Give me two or three days to consider the matter and I’ll try to fi… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: “Give me two or three days to consider the matter and I’ll try to find a way to carry you over the desert. Who acts: you, little man. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 160

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“Give me two or three days to consider the matter and I’ll try to find a way to carry you over the desert.

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**Who acts:** you, little man · **What happens:** give, consider, try, find, carry · **To what, where:** little man, matter, way, you, desert

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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, little man), 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:pg55:17:160
# text = “Give me two or three days to consider the matter and I’ll try to find a way to carry you over the desert.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	conj	_	_
7	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	consider	consider	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	over	over	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | the little man *= man* |  | day |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 2 | **consider** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the matter |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent matter=Attribute |
| 3 | **try** *in a quote* | future | the little man *= man* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **find** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | the little man *= man* *not said here* | a way |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
| 5 | **carry** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the little man *= man* *not said here* | you |  | the desert |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |

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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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