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title: “If Oz had taken a dose of the same courage he gave me,” added the L… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: “If Oz had taken a dose of the same courage he gave me,” added the Lion, “he would have been a brave man.” Who acts: Oz, 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 of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees, sentence 22

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“If Oz had taken a dose of the same courage he gave me,” added the Lion, “he would have been a brave man.”

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**Who acts:** Oz, Lion · **What happens:** take, give, add, be · **To what, where:** dose, same courage, Lion, brave man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Oz, 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:pg55:21:22
# text = “If Oz had taken a dose of the same courage he gave me,” added the Lion, “he would have been a brave man.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	Oz	Oz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dose	dose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
17	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
21	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
24	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux	_	_
25	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	cop	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past · perfect | Oz | a dose of the same courage |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dose=Theme |
| 2 | **give** *in a quote* | past | Oz | the same courage *not said here* | the Lion *= lion* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | past | the Lion |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | would · perfect | Oz | a brave man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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