--- title: “I have wasted the charm of the Golden Cap to no purpose,” she said,… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: “I have wasted the charm of the Golden Cap to no purpose,” she said, “for the Winged Monkeys cannot help me.” Who acts: Dorothy. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/20/40/) [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 XVIII. Away to the South](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/20/) / 40 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South, sentence 40 “I have wasted the charm of the Golden Cap to no purpose,” she said, “for the Winged Monkeys cannot help me.” **Who acts:** Dorothy · **What happens:** waste, say, wing, not help · **To what, where:** charm, Dorothy · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dorothy), 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:pg55:20:40 # text = “I have wasted the charm of the Golden Cap to no purpose,” she said, “for the Winged Monkeys cannot help me.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 wasted waste VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 17 ccomp _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 charm charm NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 Golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 Cap Cap PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 13 det _ _ 13 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 16 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 19 “ " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 Winged wing VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 amod _ _ 23 Monkeys monkey NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 24 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 ccomp _ _ 27 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 . . PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ” " PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **waste** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Dorothy | the charm of the Golden Cap | | | | to no purpose | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charm=Patient | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Dorothy | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **wing** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **help** *in a quote* | can | | | Dorothy | | | for the Winged Monkeys | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | 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 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/20/39/) - next →: [sentence 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/20/41/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XVIII. Away to the South](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/20/)