--- title: Alice thinks: "and what is the use of a book," "without pictures or… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1: Down the… · tree and pragmatics description: Alice thinks: "and what is the use of a book," "without pictures or conversations?"; "conversations" here means characters talking to each other. Who acts: Alice, conversations, characters. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alice, conversations, characters), 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:5 # text = Alice thinks: "and what is the use of a book," "without pictures or conversations?"; "conversations" here means characters talking to each other. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 thinks think VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 6 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 9 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 use use NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 16 without without ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 pictures picture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 conversations conversation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 20 ? ? PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 24 conversations conversation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 26 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 24 advmod _ _ 27 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis 28 characters character NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 29 talking talk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 acl _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 29 obl _ _ 32 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 fixed _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Alice | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | | the use | | | | of a book; without pictures or conversations | tree rules | | 3 | **mean** | present | conversations | characters | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent character=Topic | | 4 | **talk** | gerund | characters *not said here* | | | | | to each | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to each=Co-Agent | 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. **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:5`. **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): 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/). - ← previous: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/1-alice-ch1-part1-down-the-rabbit-hole/4/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/1-alice-ch1-part1-down-the-rabbit-hole/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/1-alice-ch1-part1-down-the-rabbit-hole/)