--- title: The Lion was angry at this speech, but could say nothing in reply, a… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: The Lion was angry at this speech, but could say nothing in reply, and while he stood silently gazing at the Ball of Fire it became so furiously hot that he turned tail and rushed from the room. Who acts: Lion, Ball. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wonder --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/13/170/) [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 XI. The Wonderful City of Oz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/13/) / 170 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 170 The Lion was angry at this speech, but could say nothing in reply, and while he stood silently gazing at the Ball of Fire it became so furiously hot that he turned tail and rushed from the room. **Who acts:** Lion, Ball · **What happens:** be, say, stand, gaze, become, turn · **To what, where:** speech, nothing, reply, tail, room · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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. **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:pg55:13:170 # text = The Lion was angry at this speech, but could say nothing in reply, and while he stood silently gazing at the Ball of Fire it became so furiously hot that he turned tail and rushed from the room. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Lion Lion PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 7 det _ _ 7 speech speech NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 12 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 11 obj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 reply reply NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 while while SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 20 silently silently ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 gazing gaze VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 Ball Ball PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 Fire Fire PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl:relcl _ _ 29 so so ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 30 furiously furiously ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 xcomp _ _ 32 that that SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 35 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 rushed rush VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 38 from from ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the Lion | | | this speech | | angry *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | could | | nothing | | reply | | | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme in reply=Manner | | 3 | **stand** | past | Lion | | | | | silently *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **gaze** | gerund | Lion *not said here* | | | | | at the Ball of Fire | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at ball=Theme | | 5 | **become** | past | Ball | | | | | hot *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **turn** | past | Lion | tail | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tail=Theme | | 7 | **rush** | past | Lion *not said here* | | | the room | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from room=Trajectory | 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. 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