--- title: “We must protect him ourselves if he is in danger,” replied the Tin… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: “We must protect him ourselves if he is in danger,” replied the Tin Woodman. Who acts: We, Toto, Tin Woodman. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/8/12/) [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 VI. The Cowardly Lion](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/8/) / 12 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 12 “We must protect him ourselves if he is in danger,” replied the Tin Woodman. **Who acts:** We, Toto, Tin Woodman · **What happens:** protect, be, reply · **To what, where:** Toto, danger · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, Toto, Tin Woodman), 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:pg55:8:12 # text = “We must protect him ourselves if he is in danger,” replied the Tin Woodman. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 protect protect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 ccomp _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 ourselves ourselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 4 obj _ _ 7 if if SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 14 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 Tin Tin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 Woodman Woodman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **protect** *in a quote* | must | We | Toto | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | Toto | | | danger | | | tree rules | | 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the Tin Woodman | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | 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 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/8/11/) - next →: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/8/13/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/8/)