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title: One day, just before the wedding, my grandfather was flying out with… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: One day, just before the wedding, my grandfather was flying out with his band when he saw Quelala walking beside the river. Who acts: grandfather, Quelala. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 71

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One day, just before the wedding, my grandfather was flying out with his band when he saw Quelala walking beside the river.

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**Who acts:** grandfather, Quelala · **What happens:** fly out, see, walk · **To what, where:** Quelala, river

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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 (grandfather, Quelala), 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:pg55:16:71
# text = One day, just before the wedding, my grandfather was flying out with his band when he saw Quelala walking beside the river.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
20	Quelala	Quelala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	xcomp	_	_
22	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly out** | past · progressive | my grandfather |  |  |  |  | with grandfather's band | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | grandfather | Quelala |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **walk** | gerund | Quelala *not said here* |  |  | the river |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside river=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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