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title: “If I put an end to your enemy, will you bow down to me and obey me… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: “If I put an end to your enemy, will you bow down to me and obey me as King of the Forest?” inquired the Lion. Who acts: Lion, you. 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 clau
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts, sentence 34

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“If I put an end to your enemy, will you bow down to me and obey me as King of the Forest?” inquired the Lion.

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**Who acts:** Lion, you · **What happens:** put, bow down, obey, inquire · **To what, where:** end, 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, you), 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:pg55:23:34
# text = “If I put an end to your enemy, will you bow down to me and obey me as King of the Forest?” inquired the Lion.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	bow	bow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	ccomp	_	_
14	down	down	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	obey	obey	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Forest	Forest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
27	inquired	inquire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | the Lion *= lion* | a end |  |  |  | to your enemy | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent end=Goal |
| 2 | **bow down** *in a quote* | future | you |  | the Lion *= lion* |  |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to i=Pivot |
| 3 | **obey** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | the Lion *= lion* |  |  |  | as King of the Forest | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 4 | **inquire** *speech: other* | past | the Lion |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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