--- title: It was a bit of good luck to have their new comrade join the party,… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: It was a bit of good luck to have their new comrade join the party, for soon after they had begun their journey again they came to a place where the trees and branches grew so thick over the road that the travelers could not pass. Who acts: rain, brains, trees, travelers. A sentence of «The Wonderfu --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/7/53/) [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/) / 53 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 53 It was a bit of good luck to have their new comrade join the party, for soon after they had begun their journey again they came to a place where the trees and branches grew so thick over the road that the travelers could not pass. **Who acts:** rain, brains, trees, travelers · **What happens:** be, have, join, begin, come, grow · **To what, where:** bit, new comrade, party, journey, place 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 (rain, brains, trees, travelers), 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:pg55:7:53 # text = It was a bit of good luck to have their new comrade join the party, for soon after they had begun their journey again they came to a place where the trees and branches grew so thick over the road that the travelers could not pass. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl:unmarked _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 luck luck NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 comrade comrade NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 join join VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 for for SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 18 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 22 advmod _ _ 19 after after SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 begun begin VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 27 advcl _ _ 23 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 again again ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 36 advmod _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 branches branch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 conj _ _ 36 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 37 so so ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 xcomp _ _ 39 over over ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 42 that that SCONJ IN _ 47 mark _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 travelers traveler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 nsubj _ _ 45 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 47 aux _ _ 46 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 47 advmod _ _ 47 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | rain | a bit | | | | of good luck | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | to-infinitive | | brains's new comrade | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comrade=Patient | | 3 | **join** | present | | the party | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Patient | | 4 | **begin** | past · perfect | brains *= brain* | brains's journey | | | again | soon *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Eventuality | | 5 | **come** | past | brains *= brain* | | | a place | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **grow** | past | the trees and branches | | | | | thick *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **not** **pass** | could | the travelers | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **journey** | | brains *= brain* | | | | | | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/7/52/) - next →: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/7/54/) - ↑ back to [Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/7/)