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title: Whenever I’ve met a man I’ve been awfully scared; but I just roared… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: Whenever I’ve met a man I’ve been awfully scared; but I just roared at him, and he has always run away as fast as he could go. Who acts: I, man. 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.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 49

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Whenever I’ve met a man I’ve been awfully scared; but I just roared at him, and he has always run away as fast as he could go.

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**Who acts:** I, man · **What happens:** meet, be, roar, run away, go · **To what, where:** man

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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 (I, man), 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:pg55:8:49
# text = Whenever I’ve met a man I’ve been awfully scared; but I just roared at him, and he has always run away as fast as he could go.
1	Whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	4	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’ve	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’ve	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	cop	_	_
10	awfully	awfully	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	just	just	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	roared	roar	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	24	advmod	_	_
24	run	run	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
25	away	away	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	as	as	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | present · perfect | I | a man |  |  |  | whenever *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | I | a man *not said here* |  |  |  | awfully, scared *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **roar** | past | I |  |  |  |  | at man | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Location |
| 4 | **run away** | present · perfect | man |  |  |  |  | always, away, fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **go** | could | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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