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title: Then, being prepared for the journey, they all started for the Emera… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, being prepared for the journey, they all started for the Emerald City; and the Winkies gave them three cheers and many good wishes to carry with them. Who acts: baskets, Winkies. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIII. The Rescue, with its dependency tree and
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIII. The Rescue, sentence 48

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Then, being prepared for the journey, they all started for the Emerald City; and the Winkies gave them three cheers and many good wishes to carry with them.

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**Who acts:** baskets, Winkies · **What happens:** prepare, start, give, carry · **To what, where:** three cheers, baskets

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIII. The Rescue. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (baskets, Winkies), 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:pg55:15:48
# text = Then, being prepared for the journey, they all started for the Emerald City; and the Winkies gave them three cheers and many good wishes to carry with them.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	all	all	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Emerald	Emerald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Winkies	Winky	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	iobj	_	_
22	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	cheers	cheer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	wishes	wish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prepare** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  | then | for the journey | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: for journey=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **start** | past | baskets *= basket* |  |  |  |  | for the Emerald City; all *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **give** | past | the Winkies | three cheers and many good wishes | baskets *= basket* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient cheer=Theme |
| 4 | **carry** | to-infinitive | the Winkies *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with baskets *= basket* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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