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title: All the other animals in the forest naturally expect me to be brave,… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: All the other animals in the forest naturally expect me to be brave, for the Lion is everywhere thought to be the King of Beasts. Who acts: other animals, me. 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 ev
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 47

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All the other animals in the forest naturally expect me to be brave, for the Lion is everywhere thought to be the King of Beasts.

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**Who acts:** other animals, me · **What happens:** expect, be, think · **To what, where:** me, Lion, King · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (other animals, me), 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:pg55:8:47
# text = All the other animals in the forest naturally expect me to be brave, for the Lion is everywhere thought to be the King of Beasts.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	naturally	naturally	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	expect	expect	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
13	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
19	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	20	advmod	_	_
20	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	ccomp	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Beasts	Beast	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **expect** | infinitive | all other animals in the forest | me |  |  |  | naturally *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 2 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | me *not said here* |  |  |  |  | brave *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | present · passive |  | the Lion |  |  |  | everywhere *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | the King |  |  |  | of Beasts | tree rules |

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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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