--- title: “By means of the Golden Cap I shall command the Winged Monkeys to ca… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: “By means of the Golden Cap I shall command the Winged Monkeys to carry you to the gates of the Emerald City,” said Glinda, “for it would be a shame to deprive the people of so wonderful a ruler.” Who acts: Glinda, City. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXIII. Gli --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/25/17/) [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 XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch G…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/25/) / 17 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish, sentence 17 “By means of the Golden Cap I shall command the Winged Monkeys to carry you to the gates of the Emerald City,” said Glinda, “for it would be a shame to deprive the people of so wonderful a ruler.” **Who acts:** Glinda, City · **What happens:** mean, command, wing, carry, say, be · **To what, where:** Winged Monkeys, you, gates, people · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Glinda, City), 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:pg55:25:17 # text = “By means of the Golden Cap I shall command the Winged Monkeys to carry you to the gates of the Emerald City,” said Glinda, “for it would be a shame to deprive the people of so wonderful a ruler.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 By by ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 Golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 Cap Cap PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 command command VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 Winged wing VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 amod _ _ 13 Monkeys monkey NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 gates gate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 Emerald Emerald PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 City City PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 26 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 27 Glinda Glinda PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 29 “ " PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 32 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 33 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 35 cop _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 shame shame NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 ccomp _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 deprive deprive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 acl _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obj _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 so so ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 42 wonderful wonderful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 acl:relcl _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 ruler ruler NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **command** *in a quote* | shall | Glinda | the Winged Monkeys | | | | of the Golden Cap | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent monkey=Theme | | 3 | **wing** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **carry** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Glinda *not said here* | you | | the gates of the Emerald City | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to gate=Destination | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Glinda | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | would | City | | | | | for a shame | tree rules | | 7 | **deprive** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Glinda *not said here* | the people | | | | | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Source | 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 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/25/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/25/18/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/25/)