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title: She threw her arms around the Lion’s neck and kissed him, patting hi… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: She threw her arms around the Lion’s neck and kissed him, patting his big head tenderly. Who acts: child. 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 tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish, sentence 47

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She threw her arms around the Lion’s neck and kissed him, patting his big head tenderly.

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**Who acts:** child · **What happens:** throw, kiss, pat · **To what, where:** arms, neck, Lion, big head

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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 (child), 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:pg55:25:47
# text = She threw her arms around the Lion’s neck and kissed him, patting his big head tenderly.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	around	around	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	patting	pat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	tenderly	tenderly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **throw** | past | child | child's arms |  | the Lion's neck |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent arm=Theme around neck=Destination |
| 2 | **kiss** | past | child *not said here* | Lion |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **pat** | gerund | child *not said here* | Lion's big head |  |  |  | tenderly *property* | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Experiencer |

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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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