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title: “And I should have lived a coward forever,” declared the Lion, “and… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: “And I should have lived a coward forever,” declared the Lion, “and no beast in all the forest would have had a good word to say to me.” Who acts: I, Lion. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish, with its dependency tre
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish, sentence 40

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“And I should have lived a coward forever,” declared the Lion, “and no beast in all the forest would have had a good word to say to me.”

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**Who acts:** I, Lion · **What happens:** live, declare, have, say · **To what, where:** good word, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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:pg55:25:40
# text = “And I should have lived a coward forever,” declared the Lion, “and no beast in all the forest would have had a good word to say to me.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
6	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	parataxis	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	coward	coward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
9	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
12	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	23	det:predet	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux	_	_
26	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	ccomp	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	acl	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** *in a quote* | should · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | forever *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **declare** *speech: other* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | would · perfect | the Lion | a good word |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Lion *not said here* | a good word *not said here* | me |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient |

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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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