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title: There were tigers and elephants and bears and wolves and foxes and a… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: There were tigers and elephants and bears and wolves and foxes and all the others in the natural history, and for a moment Dorothy was afraid. Who acts: tigers, Dorothy. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts, with its dependency
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts, sentence 19

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There were tigers and elephants and bears and wolves and foxes and all the others in the natural history, and for a moment Dorothy was afraid.

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**Who acts:** tigers, Dorothy · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tigers, Dorothy), 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:pg55:23:19
# text = There were tigers and elephants and bears and wolves and foxes and all the others in the natural history, and for a moment Dorothy was afraid.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	tigers	tiger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	foxes	fox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
25	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | tigers and elephants and bears and wolves and foxes and all others in the natural history |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | Dorothy |  |  |  | moment | afraid *property* | 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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