--- title: So he said, “I’m sorry not to do as you wish, but we must pass over… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: So he said, “I’m sorry not to do as you wish, but we must pass over your hill whether you like it or not,” and he walked boldly forward. Who acts: creature, you, we. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings, with its dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/24/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Wonderful Wizard of Oz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/) / [Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadl…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/24/) / 12 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings, sentence 12 So he said, “I’m sorry not to do as you wish, but we must pass over your hill whether you like it or not,” and he walked boldly forward. **Who acts:** creature, you, we · **What happens:** say, be, not do, wish, pass, like · **To what, where:** hill · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (creature, you, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg55:24:12 # text = So he said, “I’m sorry not to do as you wish, but we must pass over your hill whether you like it or not,” and he walked boldly forward. 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 “ " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ’m be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 8 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 xcomp _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 obl _ _ 12 as as SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 wish wish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 20 over over ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 like like VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ” " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 34 boldly boldly ADV RB Degree=Pos 33 advmod _ _ 35 forward forward ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | creature | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **be** *in a quote* | present | creature | | | | | sorry *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **not** **do** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **wish** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 5 | **pass** *in a quote* | must | we | | | your hill | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over hill=Location | | 6 | **like** *in a quote* | present | you | hill | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | | 7 | **walk** | past | creature | | | | | boldly, forward *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/24/11/) - next →: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/24/13/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/24/)