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title: “I have always thought myself very big and terrible; yet such little… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: “I have always thought myself very big and terrible; yet such little things as flowers came near to killing me, and such small animals as mice have saved my life. Who acts: flowers, such little things. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, 
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate, sentence 5

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“I have always thought myself very big and terrible; yet such little things as flowers came near to killing me, and such small animals as mice have saved my life.

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**Who acts:** flowers, such little things · **What happens:** think, come, kill, save · **To what, where:** flowers, such small animals

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flowers, such little things), 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:pg55:12:5
# text = “I have always thought myself very big and terrible; yet such little things as flowers came near to killing me, and such small animals as mice have saved my life.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
19	near	near	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	killing	kill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
25	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
30	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	saved	save	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
32	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present · perfect | flowers *= flower* | flowers *= flower* |  |  |  | always, big *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** *in a quote* | past | such little things as flowers |  |  |  |  | near *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **kill** *in a quote* | gerund | such little things as flowers *not said here* | flowers *= flower* |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 4 | **save** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | such small animals as mice |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary life=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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