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title: So once more the little company set off upon the journey, the Lion w… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: So once more the little company set off upon the journey, the Lion walking with stately strides at Dorothy’s side. Who acts: 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 every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 75

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So once more the little company set off upon the journey, the Lion walking with stately strides at Dorothy’s side.

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**Who acts:** Lion · **What happens:** set off, walk · **To what, where:** little company, side

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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 (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:pg55:8:75
# text = So once more the little company set off upon the journey, the Lion walking with stately strides at Dorothy’s side.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	advmod	_	_
3	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	off	off	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
15	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	stately	stately	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	strides	stride	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’s	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set off** | participle · passive |  | the little company |  |  |  | upon the journey | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **walk** | gerund | the Lion *not said here* |  |  | Dorothy's side |  | with stately strides | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at side=Trajectory |

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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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