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title: He bade his comrades good-bye and marched proudly away to do battle… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: He bade his comrades good-bye and marched proudly away to do battle with the enemy. 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 39

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He bade his comrades good-bye and marched proudly away to do battle with the enemy.

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**Who acts:** Lion · **What happens:** bade, march away, battle · **To what, where:** comrades

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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:pg55:23:39
# text = He bade his comrades good-bye and marched proudly away to do battle with the enemy.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bade	bade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	comrades	comrade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	bye	bye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	marched	march	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	proudly	proudly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	away	away	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
13	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	battle	battle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bade** | past | Lion | Lion's comrades |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **march away** | past | Lion *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away, proudly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **battle** | to-infinitive · do-support | Lion *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the enemy | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with enemy=Co-Agent |

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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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