--- title: It has eight of these long legs, and as the monster crawls through t… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: It has eight of these long legs, and as the monster crawls through the forest he seizes an animal with a leg and drags it to his mouth, where he eats it as a spider does a fly. Who acts: enemy, monster, trouble, spider. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXI. The Li --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/23/28/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Wonderful Wizard of Oz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/) / [Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/23/) / 28 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts, sentence 28 It has eight of these long legs, and as the monster crawls through the forest he seizes an animal with a leg and drags it to his mouth, where he eats it as a spider does a fly. **Who acts:** enemy, monster, trouble, spider · **What happens:** have, crawl, seize, drag, eat, do · **To what, where:** eight, forest, animal, enemy, mouth 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 (enemy, monster, trouble, spider), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg55:23:28 # text = It has eight of these long legs, and as the monster crawls through the forest he seizes an animal with a leg and drags it to his mouth, where he eats it as a spider does a fly. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 7 det _ _ 6 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 10 as as SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 monster monster NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 crawls crawl VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 14 through through ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 seizes seize VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 19 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 leg leg NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 drags drag VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 33 advmod _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 as as SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 spider spider NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | enemy | eight of this long legs | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eight=Patient | | 2 | **crawl** | present | the monster | | | the forest | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through forest=Trajectory | | 3 | **seize** | present | trouble | a animal | | | | with a leg | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme | | 4 | **drag** | present | enemy *not said here* | enemy | | trouble's mouth | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to mouth=Destination | | 5 | **eat** | present | trouble | enemy | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 6 | **do** | present | a spider | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **fly** | infinitive | a spider *not said here* | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/23/27/) - next →: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/23/29/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/23/)