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title: Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood thr… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal. Who acts: Folklore legends, healthy youngster. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. 
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Opening, sentence 29

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Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal.

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**Who acts:** Folklore legends, healthy youngster · **What happens:** have, follow · **To what, where:** followed childhood, ages, wholesome love

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Folklore legends, healthy youngster), 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:pg55:1:29
# text = Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal.
1	Folklore	folklore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	myths	myth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
9	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	childhood	childhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	through	through	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
18	healthy	healthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	youngster	youngster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
22	wholesome	wholesome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	instinctive	instinctive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
25	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
28	fantastic	fantastic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	marvelous	marvelous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	manifestly	manifestly	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	unreal	unreal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Folklore legends and myths and fairy tales | followed childhood |  |  | through the ages |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent childhood=Patient |
| 2 | **follow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | present | every healthy youngster | a wholesome love |  |  |  | for stories | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Patient |

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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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