--- title: “I cannot think why this wall is here, nor what it is made of.” — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: “I cannot think why this wall is here, nor what it is made of.” Who acts: I, wall. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, 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/pg55/22/4/) [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 XX. The Dainty China Country](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/22/) / 4 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 4 “I cannot think why this wall is here, nor what it is made of.” **Who acts:** I, wall · **What happens:** not think, be, make · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, wall), 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:pg55:22:4 # text = “I cannot think why this wall is here, nor what it is made of.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ _ 7 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 8 det _ _ 8 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 16 cc _ _ 13 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 ccomp _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | can | I | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | this wall | | | | | here *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **make** *in a quote* | present · passive | | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | 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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/22/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/22/5/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/22/)