--- title: “They are monstrous beasts with bodies like bears and heads like tig… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: “They are monstrous beasts with bodies like bears and heads like tigers,” replied the Lion, “and with claws so long and sharp that they could tear me in two as easily as I could kill Toto. Who acts: leaps, monstrous beasts. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VII. Th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/9/46/) [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/) / 46 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 46 “They are monstrous beasts with bodies like bears and heads like tigers,” replied the Lion, “and with claws so long and sharp that they could tear me in two as easily as I could kill Toto. **Who acts:** leaps, monstrous beasts · **What happens:** be, reply, tear, kill · **To what, where:** monstrous beasts, Lion, Toto · **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 (leaps, monstrous beasts), 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:pg55:9:46 # text = “They are monstrous beasts with bodies like bears and heads like tigers,” replied the Lion, “and with claws so long and sharp that they could tear me in two as easily as I could kill Toto. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 monstrous monstrous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 beasts beast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 bodies body NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 8 like like ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 bears bear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 12 like like ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 tigers tiger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 16 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 Lion Lion PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 “ " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 claws claw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 16 advmod _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 conj _ _ 28 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 tear tear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ _ 32 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 in in ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 34 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 obj _ _ 35 as as ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 easily easily ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 37 as as SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 38 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 39 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 advcl _ _ 41 Toto Toto PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . 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 | leaps *= leap* | monstrous beasts | | | | with bodies like bears and heads like tigers | tree rules | | 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | monstrous beasts | the Lion | | | | long *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent lion=Topic | | 3 | **tear** *in a quote* | could | leaps *= leap* | monstrous beasts *= beast* | | | | easily *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Patient two=Result | | 4 | **kill** *in a quote* | could | monstrous beasts *= beast* | Toto | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toto=Theme | 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 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/9/45/) - next →: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/9/47/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/9/)