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title: It was not so high as the first, however, and by standing upon the L… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: It was not so high as the first, however, and by standing upon the Lion’s back they all managed to scramble to the top. Who acts: animal, travelers. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country, sentence 79

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It was not so high as the first, however, and by standing upon the Lion’s back they all managed to scramble to the top.

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**Who acts:** animal, travelers · **What happens:** not be, stand, manage, scramble · **To what, where:** back, top

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (animal, travelers), 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:pg55:22:79
# text = It was not so high as the first, however, and by standing upon the Lion’s back they all managed to scramble to the top.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	however	however	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
13	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
15	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’s	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
22	managed	manage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	scramble	scramble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | animal |  |  |  |  | as the first; high, however *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **stand** | gerund | travelers *= traveler* *not said here* |  |  | the Lion's back |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon back=Location |
| 3 | **manage** | past | travelers *= traveler* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **scramble** | to-infinitive | travelers *= traveler* *not said here* |  |  | the top |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to top=Destination |

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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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