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title: It had a great mouth, with a row of sharp teeth a foot long; but its… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: It had a great mouth, with a row of sharp teeth a foot long; but its head was joined to the pudgy body by a neck as slender as a wasp’s waist. Who acts: body, neck. 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
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts, sentence 42

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It had a great mouth, with a row of sharp teeth a foot long; but its head was joined to the pudgy body by a neck as slender as a wasp’s waist.

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**Who acts:** body, neck · **What happens:** have, join · **To what, where:** great mouth, head

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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 (body, neck), 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:pg55:23:42
# text = It had a great mouth, with a row of sharp teeth a foot long; but its head was joined to the pudgy body by a neck as slender as a wasp’s waist.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	joined	join	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	pudgy	pudgy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
29	as	as	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	slender	slender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
31	as	as	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	wasp	wasp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	’s	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	waist	waist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | body | a great mouth |  |  |  | with a row of sharp teeth | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient |
| 2 | **join** | past · passive | a neck | body's head |  |  |  | to the pudgy body | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient to body=Co-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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