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title: Thereafter he walked very carefully, with his eyes on the road, and… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: Thereafter he walked very carefully, with his eyes on the road, and when he saw a tiny ant toiling by he would step over it, so as not to harm it. Who acts: Lion, tiny ant. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion, sentence 88

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Thereafter he walked very carefully, with his eyes on the road, and when he saw a tiny ant toiling by he would step over it, so as not to harm it.

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**Who acts:** Lion, tiny ant · **What happens:** walk, see, toil, step, not harm · **To what, where:** tiny ant, ant

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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, tiny ant), 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:pg55:8:88
# text = Thereafter he walked very carefully, with his eyes on the road, and when he saw a tiny ant toiling by he would step over it, so as not to harm it.
1	Thereafter	thereafter	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	ant	ant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	toiling	toil	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
22	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	step	step	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	ccomp	_	_
26	over	over	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
30	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	harm	harm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past | Lion |  |  |  |  | with Lion's eyes on the road; carefully, thereafter *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | Lion | a tiny ant |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ant=Stimulus |
| 3 | **toil** | gerund | a tiny ant *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **step** | would | Lion |  |  | ant |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over it=Trajectory |
| 5 | **not** **harm** | to-infinitive | Lion *not said here* | ant |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer |

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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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