--- title: When he grew to manhood, Quelala, as he was called, was said to be t… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: When he grew to manhood, Quelala, as he was called, was said to be the best and wisest man in all the land, while his manly beauty was so great that Gayelette loved him dearly, and hastened to make everything ready for the wedding. Who acts: Gayelette, manly beauty. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wiza --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/16/69/) [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/) / 69 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 69 When he grew to manhood, Quelala, as he was called, was said to be the best and wisest man in all the land, while his manly beauty was so great that Gayelette loved him dearly, and hastened to make everything ready for the wedding. **Who acts:** Gayelette, manly beauty · **What happens:** grow, call, say, be, love, hasten · **To what, where:** Gayelette, best man, land, Quelala, everything · **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 (Gayelette, manly beauty), 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:pg55:16:69 # text = When he grew to manhood, Quelala, as he was called, was said to be the best and wisest man in all the land, while his manly beauty was so great that Gayelette loved him dearly, and hastened to make everything ready for the wedding. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 manhood manhood NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 Quelala Quelala PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 as as SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 parataxis _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 17 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 22 cop _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 19 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 22 amod _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 wisest wise ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 19 conj _ _ 22 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 ccomp _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 26 det:predet _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 28 while while SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 30 manly manly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 beauty beauty NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 32 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 33 so so ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 35 that that SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 36 Gayelette Gayelette PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 37 loved love VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 advcl _ _ 38 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 dearly dearly ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 hastened hasten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 43 to to PART TO _ 44 mark _ _ 44 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 advcl _ _ 45 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 44 obj _ _ 46 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 xcomp _ _ 47 for for ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 wedding wedding NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | past | Gayelette | | | | | to manhood | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **call** | past · passive | | Gayelette | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · passive | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S» | | 4 | **is a** | to-infinitive | | the best man | | all land | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | past | Gayelette's manly beauty | | | | | great *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **love** | past | Gayelette | Quelala | | | | dearly *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | | 7 | **hasten** | participle | Gayelette *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **make** | to-infinitive | Gayelette *not said here* | everything | | | | ready *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset everything=Product | 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 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/16/68/) - next →: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/16/70/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/16/)