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title: But, to the Lion’s surprise, he could make no impression on the tin,… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: But, to the Lion’s surprise, he could make no impression on the tin, although the Woodman fell over in the road and lay still. Who acts: surprise, Woodman, Lion. 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
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 15

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But, to the Lion’s surprise, he could make no impression on the tin, although the Woodman fell over in the road and lay still.

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**Who acts:** surprise, Woodman, Lion · **What happens:** make, fall over, lay, surprise · **To what, where:** impression, tin, road

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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 (surprise, Woodman, 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:pg55:8:15
# text = But, to the Lion’s surprise, he could make no impression on the tin, although the Woodman fell over in the road and lay still.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	impression	impression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
22	over	over	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
28	still	still	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | could | the Lion's surprise | no impression |  | the tin |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset impression=Product |
| 2 | **fall over** | past | the Woodman |  |  | the road |  | over *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in road=Location |
| 3 | **lay** | infinitive | the Woodman *not said here* |  |  |  | still |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **surprise** |  | the Lion |  |  |  |  |  | nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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