--- title: I had the fun of watching them make my body and my arms and legs; an… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: I had the fun of watching them make my body and my arms and legs; and when they fastened on my head, at last, I felt very proud, for I thought I was just as good a man as anyone. Who acts: I, fun, nose. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IV. The Road Through the For --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/6/39/) [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 IV. The Road Through the Forest](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/6/) / 39 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 39 I had the fun of watching them make my body and my arms and legs; and when they fastened on my head, at last, I felt very proud, for I thought I was just as good a man as anyone. **Who acts:** I, fun, nose · **What happens:** have, watch, make, fasten, feel, think · **To what, where:** nose, body · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, fun, nose), 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:pg55:6:39 # text = I had the fun of watching them make my body and my arms and legs; and when they fastened on my head, at last, I felt very proud, for I thought I was just as good a man as anyone. 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 fun fun NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 5 of of SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 6 watching watch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 acl _ _ 7 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 9 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 12 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 18 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 fastened fasten VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 21 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 at at ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 28 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 30 very very ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 proud proud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 for for SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 34 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 36 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 37 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 38 just just ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 39 as as ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 ccomp _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 43 as as ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 42 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | I | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **watch** | gerund | the fun *not said here* | nose | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 3 | **make** | infinitive | the fun | my body | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset body=Product | | 4 | **fasten** | past | nose | | | | | on my head | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on head=Co-Patient | | 5 | **feel** | past | I | | | | | proud *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **think** *speech: other* | past | I | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is** | past | I | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | 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 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/6/38/) - next →: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/6/40/) - ↑ back to [Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/6/)