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title: “I have lost much flesh since I lived there, and now I am anxious fo… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: “I have lost much flesh since I lived there, and now I am anxious for a chance to show the other beasts how courageous I have grown.” Who acts: Lion. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees, sentence 17

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“I have lost much flesh since I lived there, and now I am anxious for a chance to show the other beasts how courageous I have grown.”

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**Who acts:** Lion · **What happens:** lose, live, be, show, grow · **To what, where:** much flesh, other beasts

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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), 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:pg55:21:17
# text = “I have lost much flesh since I lived there, and now I am anxious for a chance to show the other beasts how courageous I have grown.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
10	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	anxious	anxious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
25	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
26	courageous	courageous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the Lion *= lion* | much flesh |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flesh=Eventuality |
| 2 | **live** *in a quote* | past | the Lion *= lion* |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the Lion *= lion* |  |  |  | now | for a chance; anxious *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **show** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Lion *= lion* *not said here* | the other beasts |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent beast=Recipient |
| 5 | **grow** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the Lion *= lion* | the other beasts *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location beast=Theme |

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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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