--- title: “They are the Kalidahs!” said the Cowardly Lion, beginning to tremble. — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: “They are the Kalidahs!” said the Cowardly Lion, beginning to tremble. Who acts: legs, Kalidahs. 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/pg55/9/60/) [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/) / 60 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 60 “They are the Kalidahs!” said the Cowardly Lion, beginning to tremble. **Who acts:** legs, Kalidahs · **What happens:** be, say, begin, tremble · **To what, where:** Kalidahs · **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 (legs, Kalidahs), 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:pg55:9:60 # text = “They are the Kalidahs!” said the Cowardly Lion, beginning to tremble. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 8 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 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Kalidahs Kalidahs PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ! ! PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 Cowardly cowardly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 Lion Lion PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 beginning begin VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 tremble tremble VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 16 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | legs *= leg* | the Kalidahs | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the Kalidahs | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **begin** | gerund | the Kalidahs *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **tremble** | to-infinitive | the Kalidahs *not said here* | | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/9/59/) - next →: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/9/61/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/9/)