--- title: Once more the tinsmith came to my help and made me a body of tin, fa… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: Once more the tinsmith came to my help and made me a body of tin, fastening my tin arms and legs and head to it, by means of joints, so that I could move around as well as ever. Who acts: tinsmith, I, my. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin W --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/7/87/) [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/) / 87 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 87 Once more the tinsmith came to my help and made me a body of tin, fastening my tin arms and legs and head to it, by means of joints, so that I could move around as well as ever. **Who acts:** tinsmith, I, my · **What happens:** come, make, fasten, mean, move around, help · **To what, where:** help, body, me, tin arms 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 (tinsmith, I, my), 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:pg55:7:87 # text = Once more the tinsmith came to my help and made me a body of tin, fastening my tin arms and legs and head to it, by means of joints, so that I could move around as well as ever. 1 Once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 2 advmod _ _ 2 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 5 advmod _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 tinsmith tinsmith NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 11 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 tin tin NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 fastening fasten VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 18 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 tin tin NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 by by ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 joints joint NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 33 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 37 mark _ _ 34 that that SCONJ IN _ 33 fixed _ _ 35 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 36 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 move move VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 conj _ _ 38 around around ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 39 as as ADV RB ExtPos=ADV 37 advmod _ _ 40 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 39 fixed _ _ 41 as as ADP IN _ 39 fixed _ _ 42 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 39 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | the tinsmith | | | my help | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to help=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **make** | past | the tinsmith *not said here* | a body of tin | me | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary body=Product | | 3 | **fasten** | gerund | the tinsmith *not said here* | my tin arms and legs and head | body | | | | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient to it=Co-Patient | | 4 | **mean** | present | | | | | | of joints | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **move around** | could | I | | | | | around *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **help** | | my | | | | | | nom help «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 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/7/86/) - next →: [sentence 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/7/88/) - ↑ back to [Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/7/)