--- title: By good luck you came along and pulled me off the stake, and from wh… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: By good luck you came along and pulled me off the stake, and from what you say I am sure the Great Oz will give me brains as soon as we get to the Emerald City.” Who acts: you, I, Great Oz, we. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, with --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/6/58/) [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/) / 58 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest, sentence 58 By good luck you came along and pulled me off the stake, and from what you say I am sure the Great Oz will give me brains as soon as we get to the Emerald City.” **Who acts:** you, I, Great Oz, we · **What happens:** come along, pull, say, be, give, get · **To what, where:** me, stake, brains · **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 (you, I, Great Oz, we), 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:pg55:6:58 # text = By good luck you came along and pulled me off the stake, and from what you say I am sure the Great Oz will give me brains as soon as we get to the Emerald City.” 1 By by ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 luck luck NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 along along ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 pulled pull VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 9 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 off off ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 stake stake NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 from from ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 5 parataxis _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 ccomp _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 Great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 Oz Oz PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 25 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 ccomp _ _ 27 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 iobj _ _ 28 brains brain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 29 as as ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 26 advmod _ _ 31 as as SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 32 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 Emerald Emerald PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 City City PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come along** | past | you | | | | | by good luck; along *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by luck=Location | | 2 | **pull** | past | you *not said here* | me | | the stake | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent i=Theme off stake=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | you | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | I | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **give** | future | the Great Oz | brains | me | | | soon *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient brain=Theme | | 6 | **get** | present | we | | | | | to the Emerald City *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to city=Result | 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 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/6/57/) - next →: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/6/59/) - ↑ back to [Chapter IV. The Road Through the Forest](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/6/)