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title: Placing this before the Cowardly Lion, who sniffed at it as if he di… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: Placing this before the Cowardly Lion, who sniffed at it as if he did not like it, the Wizard said: Who acts: Wizard, Cowardly Lion, Lion. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug, sentence 52

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Placing this before the Cowardly Lion, who sniffed at it as if he did not like it, the Wizard said:

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**Who acts:** Wizard, Cowardly Lion, Lion · **What happens:** place, sniff, not like, say · **To what, where:** this, dish · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wizard, Cowardly Lion, 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:pg55:18:52
# text = Placing this before the Cowardly Lion, who sniffed at it as if he did not like it, the Wizard said:
1	Placing	place	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	obj	_	_
3	before	before	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Cowardly	Cowardly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	sniffed	sniff	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Wizard	Wizard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **place** | gerund | the Wizard *not said here* | this |  |  | before the Cowardly Lion |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent this=Theme before lion=Destination |
| 2 | **sniff** | past | the Cowardly Lion |  |  |  |  | at dish | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **like** | past · do-support | Lion | dish |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Wizard |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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