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title: “But if you are going to call the Winged Monkeys we must run away, f… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: “But if you are going to call the Winged Monkeys we must run away, for they are full of mischief and think it great fun to plague us.” Who acts: you, Winged Monkeys, Monkeys. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, with its dependency tree and th
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 35

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“But if you are going to call the Winged Monkeys we must run away, for they are full of mischief and think it great fun to plague us.”

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**Who acts:** you, Winged Monkeys, Monkeys · **What happens:** go, call, run away, be, think, plague · **To what, where:** charm, us · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, Winged Monkeys, Monkeys), 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:pg55:16:35
# text = “But if you are going to call the Winged Monkeys we must run away, for they are full of mischief and think it great fun to plague us.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Winged	Winged	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Monkeys	Monkey	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
12	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
15	away	away	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	advcl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	mischief	mischief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	plague	plague	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
30	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | present · progressive | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **call** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **run away** *in a quote* | must | the Winged Monkeys |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Monkeys *= monkey* |  |  |  |  | of mischief; full *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | infinitive | the Winged Monkeys *not said here* | charm |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme fun=Attribute |
| 6 | **plague** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Winged Monkeys *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus we=Experiencer |

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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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