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title: So hereafter you must all serve him, and obey his slightest wish.” — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: So hereafter you must all serve him, and obey his slightest wish.” Who acts: hereafter, Wildcat. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice, sentence 20

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So hereafter you must all serve him, and obey his slightest wish.”

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**Who acts:** hereafter, Wildcat · **What happens:** serve, obey, wish · **To what, where:** Wildcat, slightest wish

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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.

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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:pg55:11:20
# text = So hereafter you must all serve him, and obey his slightest wish.”
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	hereafter	hereafter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:outer	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	obey	obey	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	slightest	slight	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
13	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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