--- title: “Well,” said the Cowardly Lion, drawing a long breath of relief, “I… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics description: “Well,” said the Cowardly Lion, drawing a long breath of relief, “I see we are going to live a little while longer, and I am glad of it, for it must be a very uncomfortable thing not to be alive. Who acts: Cowardly Lion, we, breath. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapte --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/9/73/) [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/) / 73 # The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 73 “Well,” said the Cowardly Lion, drawing a long breath of relief, “I see we are going to live a little while longer, and I am glad of it, for it must be a very uncomfortable thing not to be alive. **Who acts:** Cowardly Lion, we, breath · **What happens:** say, draw, go, live, be, not be · **To what, where:** long breath, little · **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 (Cowardly Lion, we, breath), 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:pg55:9:73 # text = “Well,” said the Cowardly Lion, drawing a long breath of relief, “I see we are going to live a little while longer, and I am glad of it, for it must be a very uncomfortable thing not to be alive. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Well well INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 Cowardly cowardly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 Lion Lion PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 drawing draw VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 breath breath NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 relief relief NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 “ " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 20 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 ccomp _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 obl:unmarked _ _ 27 while while SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 28 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 24 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 33 glad glad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 37 for for ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 39 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 40 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 44 cop _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 42 very very ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 43 uncomfortable uncomfortable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 45 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 48 advmod _ _ 46 to to PART TO _ 48 mark _ _ 47 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 48 cop _ _ 48 alive alive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Cowardly Lion | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **draw** | gerund | we *not said here* | a long breath of relief | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme | | 3 | **go** *in a quote* | present · progressive | we | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **live** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | a little | | | | long *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the Cowardly Lion *= lion* | | | | | of relief; glad *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | must | breath | | | | | for a uncomfortable thing | tree rules | | 7 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | breath *not said here* | | | | | alive *property* | tree rules | 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 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/9/72/) - next →: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/9/74/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg55/9/)