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title: And, besides, they were none of them nearly so large and brave as yo… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: And, besides, they were none of them nearly so large and brave as you.” Who acts: monster. 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 33

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And, besides, they were none of them nearly so large and brave as you.”

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**Who acts:** monster · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** none

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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 (monster), 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:pg55:23:33
# text = And, besides, they were none of them nearly so large and brave as you.”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	besides	besides	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	12	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	_
10	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | monster | none |  |  |  | of animals *= animal* | 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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