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title: “Then send for them all to come here as soon as possible, and let ea… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: “Then send for them all to come here as soon as possible, and let each one bring a long piece of string.” Who acts: you, one. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 43

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“Then send for them all to come here as soon as possible, and let each one bring a long piece of string.”

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**Who acts:** you, one · **What happens:** send, come, let, bring · **To what, where:** one, long piece

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, one), 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:pg55:11:43
# text = “Then send for them all to come here as soon as possible, and let each one bring a long piece of string.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	send	send	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	nmod:unmarked	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
9	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
10	as	as	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	string	string	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | then | for thousands *= thousand* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | here |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | each one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **bring** *in a quote* | infinitive | each one *not said here* | a long piece of string |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent piece=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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