The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 113
“We have obeyed you as far as we were able.
Who acts: We · What happens: obey, be · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 obeyed | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 obeyed | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 obeyed | aux |
| 4 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 obeyed | obj |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 far | advmod |
| 7 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 obeyed | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 able | mark |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 able | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 able | cop |
| 11 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 far | advcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 obeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obey in a quote | present · perfect | We | you | far property | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | we | able property | tree rules |
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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