---
title: But when Gayelette came running out to him she found his silks and v… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: But when Gayelette came running out to him she found his silks and velvet all ruined by the river. Who acts: Gayelette, water. 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.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/16/77/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / 77

# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 77

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
But when Gayelette came running out to him she found his silks and velvet all ruined by the river.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Gayelette, water · **What happens:** come, run out, find, ruin · **To what, where:** Gayelette, silks

<!-- .vabout -->
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, water), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg55:16:77
# text = But when Gayelette came running out to him she found his silks and velvet all ruined by the river.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	Gayelette	Gayelette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
5	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	silks	silk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	velvet	velvet	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	all	all	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	ruined	ruin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Gayelette |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **run out** | gerund | Gayelette *not said here* |  | Gayelette |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result |
| 3 | **find** | past | water | Gayelette's silks |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silk=Topic |
| 4 | **ruin** | present | water *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the river; all *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/16/76/)
- next →: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/16/78/)
- ↑ back to [Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/16/)