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title: As for the Lion, he sniffed the fresh air with delight and whisked h… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: As for the Lion, he sniffed the fresh air with delight and whisked his tail from side to side in pure joy at being in the country again, while Toto ran around them and chased the moths and butterflies, barking merrily all the time. Who acts: Lion, Toto. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by 
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees, sentence 15

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As for the Lion, he sniffed the fresh air with delight and whisked his tail from side to side in pure joy at being in the country again, while Toto ran around them and chased the moths and butterflies, barking merrily all the time.

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**Who acts:** Lion, Toto · **What happens:** sniff, whisk, be, run, chase, bark · **To what, where:** fresh air, tail, country, moths

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lion, Toto), 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:pg55:21:15
# text = As for the Lion, he sniffed the fresh air with delight and whisked his tail from side to side in pure joy at being in the country again, while Toto ran around them and chased the moths and butterflies, barking merrily all the time.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	sniffed	sniff	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	whisked	whisk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	cop	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
29	again	again	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	Toto	Toto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
34	around	around	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	chased	chase	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	moths	moth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	barking	bark	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	37	advcl	_	_
44	merrily	merrily	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
45	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	47	det:predet	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sniff** | past | Lion | the fresh air |  |  |  | as the Lion; with delight | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme |
| 2 | **whisk** | past | Lion *not said here* | Lion's tail |  |  |  | to side; in pure joy; to side | vn shake-22.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent tail=Patient to side=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  | the country | again |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **run** | past | Toto |  |  |  |  | around friends *= friend* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around they=Trajectory |
| 5 | **chase** | past | Toto *not said here* | the moths and butterflies |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moth=Theme |
| 6 | **bark** | gerund | Toto *not said here* |  |  |  | time | merrily *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: 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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