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title: “Why do you have to obey the charm of the Golden Cap?” she asked. — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: “Why do you have to obey the charm of the Golden Cap?” she asked. Who acts: you, harm. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys, sentence 56

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“Why do you have to obey the charm of the Golden Cap?” she asked.

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**Who acts:** you, harm · **What happens:** have, obey, ask · **To what, where:** charm · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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.

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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:pg55:16:56
# text = “Why do you have to obey the charm of the Golden Cap?” she asked.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	obey	obey	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	charm	charm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Cap	Cap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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