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title: There was only one danger—that my joints would rust; but I kept an o… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: There was only one danger—that my joints would rust; but I kept an oil-can in my cottage and took care to oil myself whenever I needed it. Who acts: one danger, joints, I. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, with its dependency tree 
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman, sentence 92

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There was only one danger—that my joints would rust; but I kept an oil-can in my cottage and took care to oil myself whenever I needed it.

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**Who acts:** one danger, joints, I · **What happens:** be, rust, keep, take, need · **To what, where:** one danger, cottage, care, oil

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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 (one danger, joints, I), 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:pg55:7:92
# text = There was only one danger—that my joints would rust; but I kept an oil-can in my cottage and took care to oil myself whenever I needed it.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	joints	joint	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	rust	rust	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
25	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	27	nmod:unmarked	_	_
29	whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	31	advmod	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	needed	need	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | one danger |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **rust** | would | my joints | one danger *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **keep** | past | I |  |  | my cottage |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in cottage=Location |
| 4 | **take** | past | I *not said here* | care |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument care=Theme oil=Destination |
| 5 | **need** | past | I | oil |  |  |  | whenever *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |

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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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