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title: But my grandfather pleaded hard, for he knew the Monkeys would drown… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: But my grandfather pleaded hard, for he knew the Monkeys would drown in the river with their wings tied, and Quelala said a kind word for them also; so that Gayelette finally spared them, on condition that the Winged Monkeys should ever after do three times the bidding of the owner of the Golden Cap
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 80

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But my grandfather pleaded hard, for he knew the Monkeys would drown in the river with their wings tied, and Quelala said a kind word for them also; so that Gayelette finally spared them, on condition that the Winged Monkeys should ever after do three times the bidding of the owner of the Golden Cap.

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**Who acts:** grandfather, Monkeys, Quelala, Gayelette, Winged Monkeys · **What happens:** plead, know, drown, tie, say, spare · **To what, where:** river, wings, kind word, Monkeys, condition, owner · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, Monkeys, Quelala, Gayelette), 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:pg55:16:80
# text = But my grandfather pleaded hard, for he knew the Monkeys would drown in the river with their wings tied, and Quelala said a kind word for them also; so that Gayelette finally spared them, on condition that the Winged Monkeys should ever after do three times the bidding of the owner of the Golden Cap.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	pleaded	plead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	drown	drown	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
20	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	Quelala	Quelala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nmod	_	_
30	also	also	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	36	mark	_	_
33	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	fixed	_	_
34	Gayelette	Gayelette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
35	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	spared	spare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
37	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	on	on	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
41	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	Winged	wing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	amod	_	_
44	Monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nsubj	_	_
45	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
46	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	47	advmod	_	_
47	after	after	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
48	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	acl:relcl	_	_
49	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	50	nummod	_	_
50	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obl:unmarked	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	bidding	bidding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod:unmarked	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	owner	owner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
58	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	Cap	Cap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	55	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plead** *speech: request* | past | my grandfather |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | past | grandfather |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **drown** | would | the Monkeys |  |  | the river |  | with Monkeys's wings | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with wing=Instrument |
| 4 | **tie** | participle |  | Monkeys's wings *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Quelala | a kind word |  |  |  | for Monkeys *= monkey* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
| 6 | **spare** | past | Gayelette | Monkeys *= monkey* |  | condition |  | finally *property* | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent they=Asset |
| 7 | **wing** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **do** | should | the Winged Monkeys | condition *not said here* |  |  | time | after *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent condition=Eventuality |
| 9 | **bid** |  |  | the owner of the Golden Cap |  |  |  |  | nom bidding «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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