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title: The Lion became quite angry at the laughter caused by the Scarecrow’… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: The Lion became quite angry at the laughter caused by the Scarecrow’s mishap, and giving a loud roar that echoed like thunder, he dashed up the hill. Who acts: Lion, loud roar. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings, with its dependenc
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings, sentence 16

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The Lion became quite angry at the laughter caused by the Scarecrow’s mishap, and giving a loud roar that echoed like thunder, he dashed up the hill.

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**Who acts:** Lion, loud roar · **What happens:** become, cause, give, echo, dash up · **To what, where:** laughter, loud roar, hill

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lion, loud roar), 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:pg55:24:16
# text = The Lion became quite angry at the laughter caused by the Scarecrow’s mishap, and giving a loud roar that echoed like thunder, he dashed up the hill.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	laughter	laughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	caused	cause	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Scarecrow	scarecrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	mishap	mishap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	roar	roar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	echoed	echo	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	like	like	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	dashed	dash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | the Lion |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **cause** | participle |  | the laughter *not said here* |  |  |  | by the Scarecrow's mishap | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 3 | **give** | gerund | the Lion *not said here* | a loud roar |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roar=Theme |
| 4 | **echo** | past | a loud roar |  |  |  |  | like thunder | vn sound\_existence-47.4 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **dash up** | past | Lion | the hill |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hill=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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