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title: “Are there many of these mice which call you Queen and are willing t… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: “Are there many of these mice which call you Queen and are willing to obey you?” Who acts: mice. 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 41

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“Are there many of these mice which call you Queen and are willing to obey you?”

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**Who acts:** mice · **What happens:** be, call, obey · **To what, where:** you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (mice), 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:pg55:11:41
# text = “Are there many of these mice which call you Queen and are willing to obey you?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	xcomp	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	willing	willing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	obey	obey	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  | there |  | of this mice; many *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** *in a quote* | present | this mice |  | you |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | willing *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **obey** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |

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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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