--- title: “Once,” began the leader, “we were a free people, living happily in… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: “Once,” began the leader, “we were a free people, living happily in the great forest, flying from tree to tree, eating nuts and fruit, and doing just as we pleased without calling anybody master. Who acts: we. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monke --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/16/59/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Wonderful Wizard of Oz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/) / [Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/16/) / 59 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 59 “Once,” began the leader, “we were a free people, living happily in the great forest, flying from tree to tree, eating nuts and fruit, and doing just as we pleased without calling anybody master. **Who acts:** we · **What happens:** begin, be, live, fly, eat, do · **To what, where:** leader, free people, great forest, tree, nuts, anybody master · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg55:16:59 # text = “Once,” began the leader, “we were a free people, living happily in the great forest, flying from tree to tree, eating nuts and fruit, and doing just as we pleased without calling anybody master. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 leader leader NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 9 “ " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 11 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 living live VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 parataxis _ _ 17 happily happily ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 flying fly VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 conj _ _ 24 from from ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 eating eat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 conj _ _ 30 nuts nut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 doing do VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 36 just just ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 37 as as SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 38 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 pleased pleased ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 ccomp _ _ 40 without without SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 41 calling call VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 39 advcl _ _ 42 anybody anybody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 43 compound _ _ 43 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | past | | the leader and a free people | | | | once *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | we | a free people | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **live** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | the great forest | | happily *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Location | | 4 | **fly** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | tree | | to tree | vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent from tree=Initial\_Location to tree=Destination | | 5 | **eat** *in a quote* | gerund | | nuts and fruit | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Patient | | 6 | **do** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **call** *in a quote* | gerund | | anybody master | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent master=Recipient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/16/58/) - next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/16/60/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/16/)