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title: “I will make a ladder,” said the Tin Woodman, “for we certainly must… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: “I will make a ladder,” said the Tin Woodman, “for we certainly must climb over the wall.” Who acts: Tin Woodman, we. 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 every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees, sentence 52

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“I will make a ladder,” said the Tin Woodman, “for we certainly must climb over the wall.”

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**Who acts:** Tin Woodman, we · **What happens:** make, say, climb · **To what, where:** ladder, wall · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Tin Woodman, we), 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:pg55:21:52
# text = “I will make a ladder,” said the Tin Woodman, “for we certainly must climb over the wall.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ladder	ladder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Tin	Tin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
20	over	over	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** *in a quote* | future | the Tin Woodman *= woodman* | a ladder |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ladder=Product |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Tin Woodman |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **climb** *in a quote* | must | we |  |  | the wall |  | certainly *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over wall=Trajectory |

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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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