--- title: “Oh, yes; sit down in that chair, please,” replied Oz. “You must exc… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: “Oh, yes; sit down in that chair, please,” replied Oz. “You must excuse me for taking your head off, but I shall have to do it in order to put your brains in their proper place.” Who acts: Oz., You. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/18/12/) [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 XVI. The Magic Art of the Grea…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/18/) / 12 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug, sentence 12 “Oh, yes; sit down in that chair, please,” replied Oz. “You must excuse me for taking your head off, but I shall have to do it in order to put your brains in their proper place.” **Who acts:** Oz., You · **What happens:** sit down, reply, excuse, take off, have, do · **To what, where:** chair, Oz., head, brains, proper place · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Oz., 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:pg55:18:12 # text = “Oh, yes; sit down in that chair, please,” replied Oz. “You must excuse me for taking your head off, but I shall have to do it in order to put your brains in their proper place.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 2 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ; ; PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 6 sit sit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 ccomp _ _ 7 down down ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 10 det _ _ 10 chair chair NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 12 please please INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ” " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 15 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 Oz. oz. NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 “ " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 excuse excuse VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 parataxis _ _ 21 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 for for SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 23 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ _ 24 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 off off ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 but but CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 in in SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 38 mark _ _ 36 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 fixed _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 advcl _ _ 39 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 brains brain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obj _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 43 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ” " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit down** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | that chair | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chair=Location | | 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Oz. | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **excuse** *in a quote* | must | You | Oz. | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 4 | **take off** *in a quote* | gerund | You *not said here* | your head | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | | 5 | **have** *in a quote* | shall | Oz. | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **do** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Oz. *not said here* | head | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 7 | **put** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Oz. *not said here* | your brains | | brains's proper place | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent brain=Theme in place=Destination | 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 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/18/11/) - next →: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/18/13/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/18/)