--- title: Won’t you let me carry you back to Kansas, and stand you on Aunt Em’… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: Won’t you let me carry you back to Kansas, and stand you on Aunt Em’s mantel? Who acts: you, me. 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/pg55/22/68/) [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/) / 68 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 68 Won’t you let me carry you back to Kansas, and stand you on Aunt Em’s mantel? **Who acts:** you, me · **What happens:** let, carry back, stand · **To what, where:** me, you, Kansas, mantel 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 (you, me), 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:pg55:22:68 # text = Won’t you let me carry you back to Kansas, and stand you on Aunt Em’s mantel? 1 Wo wo INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 n’t n't PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 let let VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 back back ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Kansas Kansas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 16 Aunt Aunt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod:poss _ _ 17 Em Em PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ’s 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 19 mantel mantel NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | present | you | me | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **carry back** | infinitive | me *not said here* | you | Kansas | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to kansas=Destination | | 3 | **stand** | infinitive | you *not said here* | you | | Aunt's mantel | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme on mantel=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 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/22/67/) - next →: [sentence 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/22/69/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/22/)