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title: As he spoke several of the beasts caught sight of him, and at once t… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: As he spoke several of the beasts caught sight of him, and at once the great assemblage hushed as if by magic. Who acts: Lion. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts, sentence 21

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As he spoke several of the beasts caught sight of him, and at once the great assemblage hushed as if by magic.

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**Who acts:** Lion · **What happens:** speak, catch, hush, sight · **To what, where:** several, sight, great assemblage, Lion · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (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:pg55:23:21
# text = As he spoke several of the beasts caught sight of him, and at once the great assemblage hushed as if by magic.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
4	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	18	obl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	assemblage	assemblage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
19	hushed	hush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Lion | several |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **catch** | past |  | sight of Lion |  |  |  | the great assemblage *obl* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme |
| 3 | **hush** | participle |  | the great assemblage *not said here* |  |  |  | by magic | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **sight** |  |  | Lion |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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