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title: But after a time he became more at ease, and presently Toto and the… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: But after a time he became more at ease, and presently Toto and the Cowardly Lion had grown to be good friends. Who acts: Lion, Toto. 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 77

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But after a time he became more at ease, and presently Toto and the Cowardly Lion had grown to be good friends.

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**Who acts:** Lion, Toto · **What happens:** become, grow, be · **To what, where:** ease, good friends

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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, Toto), 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:pg55:8:77
# text = But after a time he became more at ease, and presently Toto and the Cowardly Lion had grown to be good friends.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	ease	ease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
12	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	Toto	Toto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Cowardly	Cowardly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
22	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | Lion |  |  | ease | time |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **grow** | past · perfect | Toto and the Cowardly Lion |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive | Toto and the Cowardly Lion *not said here* | good friends |  |  |  |  | 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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