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title: “I think I could jump over it,” said the Cowardly Lion, after measur… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: “I think I could jump over it,” said the Cowardly Lion, after measuring the distance carefully in his mind. Who acts: I, Cowardly Lion, Lion. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 26

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“I think I could jump over it,” said the Cowardly Lion, after measuring the distance carefully in his mind.

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**Who acts:** I, Cowardly Lion, Lion · **What happens:** think, jump, say, measure, mind · **To what, where:** ditch, distance, mind · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Cowardly Lion, 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:pg55:9:26
# text = “I think I could jump over it,” said the Cowardly Lion, after measuring the distance carefully in his mind.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Cowardly	cowardly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	measuring	measure	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **jump** *in a quote* | could | I |  |  | ditch |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over it=Trajectory |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Cowardly Lion |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **measure** | gerund | the Cowardly Lion *not said here* | the distance |  | Lion's mind |  | carefully *property* | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme distance=Value |
| 5 | **mind** |  | Lion |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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