The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch, sentence 136
But, in truth, she did not dare to strike Dorothy, because of the mark upon her forehead.
Who acts: Witch · What happens: not dare, not strike · To what, where: truth, Dorothy
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.
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 dare | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 truth | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 truth | case |
| 4 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dare | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 truth | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 dare | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 dare | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 dare | advmod |
| 9 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 strike | mark |
| 11 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 dare | xcomp |
| 12 | Dorothy | Dorothy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 strike | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 mark | punct |
| 14 | because | because | SCONJ | ExtPos=ADP | 17 mark | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 because | fixed |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 mark | det |
| 17 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dare | obl |
| 18 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 forehead | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 20 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 mark | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 dare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | 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 |
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: 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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