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title: Perhaps some of us were rather too full of mischief at times, flying… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: Perhaps some of us were rather too full of mischief at times, flying down to pull the tails of the animals that had no wings, chasing birds, and throwing nuts at the people who walked in the forest. Who acts: some, animals, people. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 60

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Perhaps some of us were rather too full of mischief at times, flying down to pull the tails of the animals that had no wings, chasing birds, and throwing nuts at the people who walked in the forest.

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**Who acts:** some, animals, people · **What happens:** be, fly down, pull, have, chase, throw · **To what, where:** tails, wings, birds, nuts, forest

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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 (some, animals, people), 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:pg55:16:60
# text = Perhaps some of us were rather too full of mischief at times, flying down to pull the tails of the animals that had no wings, chasing birds, and throwing nuts at the people who walked in the forest.
1	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	too	too	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	mischief	mischief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	parataxis	_	_
15	down	down	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	26	det	_	_
26	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	chasing	chase	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
29	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
33	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
37	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj	_	_
38	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	acl:relcl	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | some |  |  |  | time | of mischief; full, perhaps *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fly down** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **pull** | to-infinitive |  | the tails of the animals |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | past | the animals | no wings |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient |
| 5 | **chase** | gerund |  | birds |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme |
| 6 | **throw** | gerund |  | nuts |  |  |  | at the people | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent nut=Theme at people=Destination |
| 7 | **walk** | past | the people |  |  | the forest |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Trajectory |

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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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