The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 56
“Why do you have to obey the charm of the Golden Cap?” she asked.
Who acts: you, harm · What happens: have, obey, ask · To what, where: charm · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, harm), 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 | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 have | advmod |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 obey | mark |
| 7 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 have | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 charm | det |
| 9 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 obey | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Cap | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Cap | det |
| 12 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Cap | amod |
| 13 | Cap | Cap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 charm | nmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 asked | nsubj |
| 17 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present · do-support | you | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | obey in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | the charm of the Golden Cap | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charm=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | harm | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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