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title: “Don’t mind Toto,” said Dorothy to her new friend. — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: “Don’t mind Toto,” said Dorothy to her new friend. Who acts: Dorothy. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow, sentence 105

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“Don’t mind Toto,” said Dorothy to her new friend.

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**Who acts:** Dorothy · **What happens:** not mind, say · **To what, where:** Toto, new friend · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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

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**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:pg55:5:105
# text = “Don’t mind Toto,” said Dorothy to her new friend.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	mind	mind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
5	Toto	Toto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **mind** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support |  | Toto |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toto=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Dorothy |  | Dorothy's new friend |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to friend=Recipient clause=Topic |

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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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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