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title: But, in truth, she did not dare to strike Dorothy, because of the ma… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: But, in truth, she did not dare to strike Dorothy, because of the mark upon her forehead. Who acts: Witch. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 136

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But, in truth, she did not dare to strike Dorothy, because of the mark upon her forehead.

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**Who acts:** Witch · **What happens:** not dare, not strike · **To what, where:** truth, Dorothy

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Witch), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg55:989`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg55:14:136
# text = But, in truth, she did not dare to strike Dorothy, because of the mark upon her forehead.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	dare	dare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	strike	strike	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	because	because	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=ADP	17	case	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
18	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	forehead	forehead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **dare** | past · do-support | Witch |  |  | truth |  | because the mark upon Witch's forehead | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **strike** | to-infinitive | Witch *not said here* | Dorothy |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent dorothy=Instrument |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Project Gutenberg book 55 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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