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title: “For my part, I am content in knowing I am as brave as any beast tha… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: “For my part, I am content in knowing I am as brave as any beast that ever lived, if not braver,” said the Lion modestly. Who acts: Lion, content, beast. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South, sentence 17

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“For my part, I am content in knowing I am as brave as any beast that ever lived, if not braver,” said the Lion modestly.

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**Who acts:** Lion, content, beast · **What happens:** be, know, live, say · **To what, where:** content · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XVIII. Away to the South. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lion, content, beast), 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:pg55:20:17
# text = “For my part, I am content in knowing I am as brave as any beast that ever lived, if not braver,” said the Lion modestly.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	content	content	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
9	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	as	as	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	ccomp	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	20	advmod	_	_
20	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	braver	brave	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
27	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
30	modestly	modestly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the Lion *= lion* | content |  |  |  | for my part | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** *in a quote* | gerund | content *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the Lion *= lion* |  |  |  |  | as any beast; brave *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **live** *in a quote* | past | any beast |  |  |  | ever |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Lion |  |  |  |  | modestly *property* | 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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