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title: We are so grateful to you for having killed the Wicked Witch of the… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: We are so grateful to you for having killed the Wicked Witch of the East, and for setting our people free from bondage.” Who acts: We. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins, sentence 24

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We are so grateful to you for having killed the Wicked Witch of the East, and for setting our people free from bondage.”

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**Who acts:** We · **What happens:** be, kill, set · **To what, where:** you, Wicked Witch, people

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter II. The Council with the Munchkins. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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:pg55:3:24
# text = We are so grateful to you for having killed the Wicked Witch of the East, and for setting our people free from bondage.”
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	grateful	grateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	aux	_	_
9	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	setting	set	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
20	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	bondage	bondage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | We |  | you |  |  | grateful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **kill** | gerund · perfect | We *not said here* | the Wicked Witch of the East |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Theme |
| 3 | **set** | gerund | We *not said here* | our people |  |  |  | free *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient people=Result |

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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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