--- title: After the Lion had rested they started along the road of yellow bric… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: After the Lion had rested they started along the road of yellow brick, silently wondering, each in his own mind, if ever they would come to the end of the woods and reach the bright sunshine again. Who acts: leaps, Lion. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VII. The J --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/9/43/) [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/) / 43 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 43 After the Lion had rested they started along the road of yellow brick, silently wondering, each in his own mind, if ever they would come to the end of the woods and reach the bright sunshine again. **Who acts:** leaps, Lion · **What happens:** rest, start, wonder, come, reach, mind · **To what, where:** Lion, each, end, bright sunshine 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 (leaps, 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:pg55:9:43 # text = After the Lion had rested they started along the road of yellow brick, silently wondering, each in his own mind, if ever they would come to the end of the woods and reach the bright sunshine again. 1 After after SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Lion Lion PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 rested rest VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 8 along along ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 brick brick NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 silently silently ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 wondering wonder VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 16 obl _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 if if SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 25 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 28 advmod _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 woods wood NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nmod _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 conj _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 sunshine sunshine NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 40 again again ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rest** | past · perfect · passive | | the Lion | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **start** | past | leaps *= leap* | | | | | along the road of yellow brick | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | | each | | | | silently *property* | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | leaps *= leap* | | | | to the end of the woods; ever | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **reach** | infinitive | leaps *= leap* *not said here* | the bright sunshine | | | again | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent sunshine=Theme | | 6 | **mind** | | Lion | | | | | | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/9/42/) - next →: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/9/44/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/9/)