--- title: “Because that isn’t the way we Lions do these things,” he replied. — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: “Because that isn’t the way we Lions do these things,” he replied. Who acts: that, we, 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 clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/9/36/) [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 VII. The Journey to the Great Oz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/9/) / 36 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 36 “Because that isn’t the way we Lions do these things,” he replied. **Who acts:** that, we, Lion · **What happens:** be, do, reply · **To what, where:** way, things · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (that, we, Lion), 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:pg55:9:36 # text = “Because that isn’t the way we Lions do these things,” he replied. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Because because SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 3 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 7 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 5 n’t n't CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 advcl _ _ 8 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 Lions Lion PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 11 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 12 det _ _ 12 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ” " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | that | the way | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **do** *in a quote* | present | we | this things | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | | 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Lion | | | | | | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/9/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/9/37/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/9/)