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title: Therefore I'm mad." Alice says "I call it purring, not growling." — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 2: The bab… · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore I'm mad." Alice says "I call it purring, not growling." Who acts: I, Alice. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 2: The baby, the pig and the Cheshire Cat» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 2: The baby, the pig and the Cheshire Cat, sentence 17

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Therefore I'm mad." Alice says "I call it purring, not growling."

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**Who acts:** I, Alice · **What happens:** be, say, call, purr, not growl · **To what, where:** tail · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 2: The baby, the pig and the Cheshire Cat» 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 (I, Alice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:012-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat.lesson:17
# text = Therefore I'm mad." Alice says "I call it purring, not growling."
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 012-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat.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
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:":_
7	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	purring	purr	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	xcomp	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	growling	growl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	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 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | mad, therefore *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **call** | present | I | tail |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **purr** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **growl** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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. **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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