--- title: Then giving a great spring, he shot through the air and landed safel… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: Then giving a great spring, he shot through the air and landed safely on the other side. Who acts: 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/pg55/9/37/) [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/) / 37 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 37 Then giving a great spring, he shot through the air and landed safely on the other side. **Who acts:** Lion · **What happens:** give, shoot, land · **To what, where:** air, other side 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 (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:pg55:9:37 # text = Then giving a great spring, he shot through the air and landed safely on the other side. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 2 advmod _ _ 2 giving give VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 shot shoot VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 through through ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 landed land VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 14 safely safely ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | gerund | Lion *not said here* | | | | then; spring | | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **shoot** | past | Lion | | | the air | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent through air=Destination | | 3 | **land** | past | Lion *not said here* | | | the other side | | safely *property* | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on side=Destination | 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 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/9/36/) - next →: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/9/38/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/9/)