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title: When the four travelers went in search of the Witch she had seen the… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: When the four travelers went in search of the Witch she had seen them coming, and so sent the Winged Monkeys to bring them to her. Who acts: four travelers, road, travelers, Winged. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, with its dependency tree
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 2

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When the four travelers went in search of the Witch she had seen them coming, and so sent the Winged Monkeys to bring them to her.

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**Who acts:** four travelers, road, travelers, Winged · **What happens:** go, see, come, send, monkey, bring · **To what, where:** search, travelers, road, Witch

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (four travelers, road, travelers, Winged), 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:pg55:16:2
# text = When the four travelers went in search of the Witch she had seen them coming, and so sent the Winged Monkeys to bring them to her.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	travelers	traveler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Winged	Winged	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	Monkeys	monkey	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the four travelers |  |  | search of the Witch |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in search=Location |
| 2 | **see** | past · perfect | road | travelers *= traveler* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | gerund | travelers *= traveler* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **send** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **monkey** | present | the Winged |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **bring** | to-infinitive | the Winged *not said here* | travelers *= traveler* | road |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to she=Destination |
| 7 | **search** |  |  | the Witch |  |  |  |  | nom search «act transitive»: of=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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