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title: The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Opening, sentence 30

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The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations.

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**What happens:** bring · **To what, where:** winged fairies

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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: 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:pg55:1:30
# text = The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	winged	winged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Grimm	Grimm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	Andersen	Andersen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	childish	childish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
15	than	than	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
17	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	creations	creation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | present · perfect · passive |  | the winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen |  |  |  | to childish hearts; than all other human creations | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination happiness=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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