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title: As his bride could not bear the sight of us, he called us all to him… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: As his bride could not bear the sight of us, he called us all to him in the forest after he had married her and ordered us always to keep where she could never again set eyes on a Winged Monkey, which we were glad to do, for we were all afraid of her. Who acts: bride, owner, Winged Monkey, we. A sen
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 85

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As his bride could not bear the sight of us, he called us all to him in the forest after he had married her and ordered us always to keep where she could never again set eyes on a Winged Monkey, which we were glad to do, for we were all afraid of her.

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**Who acts:** bride, owner, Winged Monkey, we · **What happens:** not bear, call, marry, order, keep, eye · **To what, where:** sight, us, Quelala, forest, 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 (bride, owner, Winged Monkey, we), 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:pg55:16:85
# text = As his bride could not bear the sight of us, he called us all to him in the forest after he had married her and ordered us always to keep where she could never again set eyes on a Winged Monkey, which we were glad to do, for we were all afraid of her.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	nmod:unmarked	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
21	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
28	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	31	advmod	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
32	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	31	advmod	_	_
33	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
34	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
35	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
36	again	again	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
37	set	set	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
39	on	on	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	Winged	wing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	amod	_	_
42	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
44	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	47	nsubj	_	_
45	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
46	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
47	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	parataxis	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
49	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
51	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	55	mark	_	_
52	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
53	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	55	cop	_	_
54	all	all	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
55	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	advcl	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **bear** | could | owner's bride | the sight of us |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Patient |
| 2 | **call** | past | owner | us | Quelala | the forest |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Topic to he=Recipient |
| 3 | **marry** | past · perfect · passive |  | owner |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **order** | past |  |  | us |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **keep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **eye** | could | bride |  |  |  | again | on a Winged Monkey | tree rules |
| 7 | **wing** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **is** | past | a Winged Monkey |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **do** | to-infinitive | a Winged Monkey *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **is** | past | we |  |  |  |  | of bride; afraid, all *property* | tree rules |
| 11 | **sight** |  |  | us |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition 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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