--- title: The Lion thought it might be as well to frighten the Wizard, so he g… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: The Lion thought it might be as well to frighten the Wizard, so he gave a large, loud roar, which was so fierce and dreadful that Toto jumped away from him in alarm and tipped over the screen that stood in a corner. Who acts: Lion, stillness, large loud roar, Toto. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizar --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/17/50/) [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 XV. The Discovery of Oz, the T…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/17/) / 50 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible, sentence 50 The Lion thought it might be as well to frighten the Wizard, so he gave a large, loud roar, which was so fierce and dreadful that Toto jumped away from him in alarm and tipped over the screen that stood in a corner. **Who acts:** Lion, stillness, large loud roar, Toto, screen · **What happens:** think, be, frighten, give, jump away, tip · **To what, where:** Wizard, large loud roar, alarm, screen, corner · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lion, stillness, large loud roar, Toto), 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:pg55:17:50 # text = The Lion thought it might be as well to frighten the Wizard, so he gave a large, loud roar, which was so fierce and dreadful that Toto jumped away from him in alarm and tipped over the screen that stood in a corner. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Lion Lion PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 5 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 6 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 8 cop _ _ 7 as as ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 3 ccomp _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 frighten frighten VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 Wizard Wizard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 18 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 20 loud loud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 roar roar NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 fierce fierce ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 conj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 dreadful dreadful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 conj _ _ 29 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 Toto Toto PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 jumped jump VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 32 away away ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 from from ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obl _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 alarm alarm NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 tipped tip VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 39 over over ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 screen screen NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 42 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 43 nsubj _ _ 43 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 acl:relcl _ _ 44 in in ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 corner corner NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the Lion | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | might | stillness | | | | | well *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **frighten** | to-infinitive | stillness *not said here* | the Wizard | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus wizard=Experiencer | | 4 | **give** | past | Lion | a large loud roar | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roar=Theme | | 5 | **is** | past | a large loud roar | | | | | fierce *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **be** | | a large loud roar *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **jump away** | past | Toto | | | alarm | | from Lion; away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from he=Trajectory | | 8 | **tip** | past | Toto *not said here* | | | the screen | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent over screen=Destination | | 9 | **stand** | past | the screen | | | a corner | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location | 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. 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. - ← previous: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/17/49/) - next →: [sentence 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/17/51/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/17/)