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title: “‘Swim out, my fine fellow,’ cried my grandfather, ‘and see if the w… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: “‘Swim out, my fine fellow,’ cried my grandfather, ‘and see if the water has spotted your clothes.’ Who acts: you. 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 every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 74

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“‘Swim out, my fine fellow,’ cried my grandfather, ‘and see if the water has spotted your clothes.’

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** swim out, cry, see, spot · **To what, where:** fine fellow, grandfather, water

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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), 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:pg55:16:74
# text = “‘Swim out, my fine fellow,’ cried my grandfather, ‘and see if the water has spotted your clothes.’
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Swim	swim	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
11	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	‘	‘	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	spotted	spot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	ccomp	_	_
23	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swim out** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | my fine fellow |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past |  | my grandfather and ‘ |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandfather=Topic |
| 3 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **spot** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | the water |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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