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title: The next morning the soldier with the green whiskers led the Lion to… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: The next morning the soldier with the green whiskers led the Lion to the great Throne Room and bade him enter the presence of Oz. Who acts: soldier, Lion. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 158

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The next morning the soldier with the green whiskers led the Lion to the great Throne Room and bade him enter the presence of Oz.

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**Who acts:** soldier, Lion · **What happens:** lead, enter · **To what, where:** Lion, great Throne Room, presence

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier, Lion), 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:pg55:13:158
# text = The next morning the soldier with the green whiskers led the Lion to the great Throne Room and bade him enter the presence of Oz.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	whiskers	whisker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
10	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	Throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	enter	enter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Oz.	oz.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past | the soldier with the green whiskers | the Lion |  | the great Throne Room and bade | morning |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lion=Theme to room=Destination |
| 2 | **enter** | present | Lion | the presence of Oz. |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme presence=Destination |

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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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