--- title: “They really are,” said the Lion, “but that doesn’t make me any brav… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: “They really are,” said the Lion, “but that doesn’t make me any braver, and as long as I know myself to be a coward I shall be unhappy.” Who acts: Dorothy, Lion, that. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, with its dependency tree and the pragmat --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/8/74/) [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/) / 74 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 74 “They really are,” said the Lion, “but that doesn’t make me any braver, and as long as I know myself to be a coward I shall be unhappy.” **Who acts:** Dorothy, Lion, that · **What happens:** be, say, not make, know · **To what, where:** braver, Lion, coward · **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 (Dorothy, Lion, that), 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:pg55:8:74 # text = “They really are,” said the Lion, “but that doesn’t make me any braver, and as long as I know myself to be a coward I shall be unhappy.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 really really ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Lion Lion PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 11 “ " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 16 nsubj _ _ 14 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 15 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 17 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 19 det _ _ 19 braver braver NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 as as ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 advmod _ _ 24 as as SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 27 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 26 obj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 29 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 31 cop _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 coward coward NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 ccomp _ _ 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 33 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 35 cop _ _ 35 unhappy unhappy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ” " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** *in a quote* | present | Dorothy | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Lion | | | | | long *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **make** *in a quote* | present · do-support | that | any braver | the Lion *= lion* | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary braver=Product | | 4 | **know** *in a quote* | present | the Lion *= lion* | the Lion *= lion* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer myself=Stimulus | | 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | a coward | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | shall | the Lion *= lion* | a coward *not said here* | | | | unhappy *property* | tree rules | 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 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/8/73/) - next →: [sentence 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/8/75/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/8/)