--- title: “So, if you will allow me to join your party, I will also go to the… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: “So, if you will allow me to join your party, I will also go to the Emerald City and ask Oz to help me.” Who acts: you, Dorothy. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, 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/pg55/7/48/) [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 V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/7/) / 48 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 48 “So, if you will allow me to join your party, I will also go to the Emerald City and ask Oz to help me.” **Who acts:** you, Dorothy · **What happens:** allow, join, go, ask, help · **To what, where:** Dorothy, party, Emerald City, Oz This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Dorothy), 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:pg55:7:48 # text = “So, if you will allow me to join your party, I will also go to the Emerald City and ask Oz to help me.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 So so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 if if SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 allow allow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 advcl _ _ 8 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 iobj _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 join join VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 11 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 also also ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 Emerald Emerald PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 City City PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 24 Oz Oz PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 27 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ” " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **allow** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | future | you | | Dorothy | | | | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer i=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **join** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | your party | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Patient | | 3 | **go** *in a quote* | future | Dorothy | | | the Emerald City | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to city=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | infinitive | Dorothy *not said here* | | Oz | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent oz=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **help** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | Dorothy *not said here* | | Dorothy | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | 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 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/7/47/) - next →: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/7/49/) - ↑ back to [Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/7/)