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title: Again a head shot swiftly out, and the great Lion went rolling down… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: Again a head shot swiftly out, and the great Lion went rolling down the hill as if he had been struck by a cannon ball. Who acts: great Lion. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings, sentence 17

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Again a head shot swiftly out, and the great Lion went rolling down the hill as if he had been struck by a cannon ball.

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**Who acts:** great Lion · **What happens:** go, roll down, strike · **To what, where:** hill, Lion

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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 (great 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:pg55:24:17
# text = Again a head shot swiftly out, and the great Lion went rolling down the hill as if he had been struck by a cannon ball.
1	Again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	shot	shot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	out	out	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	xcomp	_	_
14	down	down	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	struck	strike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	cannon	cannon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the great Lion |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **roll down** | gerund | the great Lion *not said here* | the hill |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hill=Agent |
| 3 | **strike** | past · perfect · passive |  | Lion |  |  |  | by a cannon ball | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Instrument |

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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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