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title: “Quelala being the first owner of the Golden Cap,” replied the Monke… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: “Quelala being the first owner of the Golden Cap,” replied the Monkey, “he was the first to lay his wishes upon us. Who acts: Quelala, first owner, owner. 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 ever
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 84

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“Quelala being the first owner of the Golden Cap,” replied the Monkey, “he was the first to lay his wishes upon us.

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**Who acts:** Quelala, first owner, owner · **What happens:** be, reply, lay, wish · **To what, where:** first owner, Monkey, wishes · **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 (Quelala, first owner, owner), 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:pg55:16:84
# text = “Quelala being the first owner of the Golden Cap,” replied the Monkey, “he was the first to lay his wishes upon us.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Quelala	Quelala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
6	owner	owner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Cap	Cap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
13	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	13	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	wishes	wish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | gerund | Quelala | the first owner |  |  |  | of the Golden Cap | tree rules |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the first owner | the Monkey |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent monkey=Topic |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | past | owner |  |  |  |  | first *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **lay** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | owner *not said here* | owner's wishes |  |  |  | upon us | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wish=Theme upon we=Destination |
| 5 | **wish** *in a quote* |  | owner |  |  |  |  |  | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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