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title: Only later "it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at th… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1: Down the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Only later "it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this"; at the time a talking rabbit seemed quite natural. Who acts: waistcoat, talking rabbit. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1: Down the Rabbit-Hole (the fall)» of the books course of Mova's primary sc
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1: Down the Rabbit-Hole (the fall), sentence 10

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Only later "it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this"; at the time a talking rabbit seemed quite natural.

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**Who acts:** waistcoat, talking rabbit · **What happens:** occur, wonder, seem · **To what, where:** Rabbit, this · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1: Down the Rabbit-Hole (the fall)» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (waistcoat, talking rabbit), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:001-alice-ch1-part1-down-the-rabbit-hole.lesson:10
# text = Only later "it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this"; at the time a talking rabbit seemed quite natural.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 001-alice-ch1-part1-down-the-rabbit-hole.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	occurred	occur	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:mark
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nsubj
10	ought	ought	AUX	MD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux	_	_
13	wondered	wonder	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	ccomp	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	obl	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	talking	talking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
25	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **occur** *in a quote* | past | waistcoat |  | Rabbit |  |  | late *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **wonder** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | ought · perfect | waistcoat *not said here* |  |  | this |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **seem** | past | a talking rabbit |  |  |  | time | natural *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:001-alice-ch1-part1-down-the-rabbit-hole.lesson:10`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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