--- title: If I could only get back to this forest, I would pass my life very h… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: If I could only get back to this forest, I would pass my life very happily there.” Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish, 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/pg55/25/28/) [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/) / 28 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish, sentence 28 If I could only get back to this forest, I would pass my life very happily there.” **Who acts:** I · **What happens:** get back, pass · **To what, where:** life 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 (I), 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:pg55:25:28 # text = If I could only get back to this forest, I would pass my life very happily there.” 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 only only ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 6 back back ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 9 det _ _ 9 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 14 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 very very ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 happily happily ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 13 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ” " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get back** *a condition, not said to happen* | could | I | | | | | to this forest *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to forest=Result | | 2 | **pass** | would | I | my life | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme life=Trajectory | 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 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/25/27/) - next →: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/25/29/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/25/)