--- title: “We should like to keep you with us, but if it is your wish to retur… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: “We should like to keep you with us, but if it is your wish to return to Kansas, I hope you will find a way.” Who acts: We, ruler, farewell, you. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/21/10/) [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 XIX. Attacked by the Fighting…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/21/) / 10 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees, sentence 10 “We should like to keep you with us, but if it is your wish to return to Kansas, I hope you will find a way.” **Who acts:** We, ruler, farewell, you · **What happens:** like, keep, be, return, hope, find · **To what, where:** you, wish, Kansas, way · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, ruler, farewell, 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:pg55:21:10 # text = “We should like to keep you with us, but if it is your wish to return to Kansas, I hope you will find a way.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 12 if if SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 wish wish NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 return return VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 acl _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 Kansas Kansas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 hope hope VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 ccomp _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **like** *in a quote* | should | We | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **keep** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | We *not said here* | you | | | | with us | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 3 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | ruler | your wish | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **return** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | We *not said here* | | Kansas | | | | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to kansas=Result | | 5 | **hope** *in a quote* | present | farewell | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **find** *in a quote* | future | you | a way | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | 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 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/21/9/) - next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/21/11/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/21/)