--- title: This gave the Lion a hint of the best way to attack the creature, an… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: This gave the Lion a hint of the best way to attack the creature, and as he knew it was easier to fight it asleep than awake, he gave a great spring and landed directly upon the monster’s back. Who acts: This, Lion, best way. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXI. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/23/43/) [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/) / 43 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts, sentence 43 This gave the Lion a hint of the best way to attack the creature, and as he knew it was easier to fight it asleep than awake, he gave a great spring and landed directly upon the monster’s back. **Who acts:** This, Lion, best way · **What happens:** give, attack, know, be, fight, land · **To what, where:** hint, Lion, creature, body · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (This, Lion, best way), 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:pg55:23:43 # text = This gave the Lion a hint of the best way to attack the creature, and as he knew it was easier to fight it asleep than awake, he gave a great spring and landed directly upon the monster’s back. 1 This this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 nsubj _ _ 2 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Lion Lion PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 hint hint NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 10 amod _ _ 10 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 attack attack VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 creature creature NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 as as SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 expl _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 easier easy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 19 ccomp _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 fight fight VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ _ 27 than than ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 awake awake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 landed land VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 37 directly directly ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 38 upon upon ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 monster monster NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ’s be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ _ 42 back back ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | past | This | a hint of the best way | the Lion | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent lion=Recipient hint=Theme | | 2 | **attack** | to-infinitive | This *not said here* | the creature | | | | | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Patient | | 3 | **know** | past | Lion | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **is** | past | | | | | | easy *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **fight** | to-infinitive | | body | | | | asleep *property* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent | | 6 | **give** | past | Lion | | | | spring | | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **land** | past | Lion *not said here* | | | | | directly *property* | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **hint** | | the best way | | | | | | nom hint «communication intransitive»: of=agent | 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 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/23/42/) - next →: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/23/44/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/23/)