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title: The Lion at once passed through the door, and glancing around saw, t… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: The Lion at once passed through the door, and glancing around saw, to his surprise, that before the throne was a Ball of Fire, so fierce and glowing he could scarcely bear to gaze upon it. Who acts: Lion, Ball. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wonderful Ci
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 159

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The Lion at once passed through the door, and glancing around saw, to his surprise, that before the throne was a Ball of Fire, so fierce and glowing he could scarcely bear to gaze upon it.

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**Who acts:** Lion, Ball · **What happens:** pass, glance around, see, be, bear, gaze · **To what, where:** door · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Lion, Ball), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg55:862`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg55:13:159
# text = The Lion at once passed through the door, and glancing around saw, to his surprise, that before the throne was a Ball of Fire, so fierce and glowing he could scarcely bear to gaze upon it.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	obl	_	_
5	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	glancing	glance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
12	around	around	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	before	before	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	ccomp	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Fire	Fire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	glowing	glowing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
34	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	advcl	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	gaze	gaze	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	xcomp	_	_
39	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obl	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | the Lion |  |  | the door |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location |
| 2 | **glance around** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | around *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **see** | past | the Lion *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to Lion's surprise | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | past | a Ball of Fire |  |  |  | before the throne |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **bear** | could | Lion |  |  |  |  | scarcely *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **gaze** | to-infinitive | Lion *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon Ball | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon it=Theme |
| 7 | **surprise** |  | Lion |  |  |  |  |  | nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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