The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 20
So hereafter you must all serve him, and obey his slightest wish.”
Who acts: hereafter, Wildcat · What happens: serve, obey, wish · To what, where: Wildcat, slightest wish
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hereafter, Wildcat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 serve | advmod |
| 2 | hereafter | hereafter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 serve | nsubj:outer |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 serve | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 serve | aux |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 serve | advmod |
| 6 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 serve | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 obey | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 obey | cc |
| 10 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 serve | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wish | nmod:poss |
| 12 | slightest | slight | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 wish | amod |
| 13 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 obey | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 serve | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 serve | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | must | hereafter | Wildcat | all property | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Attribute | |||
| 2 | obey | infinitive | hereafter not said here | Wildcat's slightest wish | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wish | Wildcat | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
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.
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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