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title: The Tin Woodman had asked Dorothy to put the oil-can in her basket. — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: The Tin Woodman had asked Dorothy to put the oil-can in her basket. Who acts: Tin Woodman. 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.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 51

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The Tin Woodman had asked Dorothy to put the oil-can in her basket.

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**Who acts:** Tin Woodman · **What happens:** ask, put · **To what, where:** Dorothy, basket

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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 (Tin Woodman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg55:7:51
# text = The Tin Woodman had asked Dorothy to put the oil-can in her basket.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Tin	Tin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	asked	ask	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	iobj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past · perfect | the Tin Woodman |  | Dorothy |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent dorothy=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **put** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Tin Woodman *not said here* |  |  | Woodman's basket |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in basket=Destination |

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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.

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**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.

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