--- title: «I dare say» means I suppose; «that accounts for it» means that expl… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 1: A Mad… · tree and pragmatics description: «I dare say» means I suppose; «that accounts for it» means that explains it; «in a twinkling» means in a flash. Who acts: Hatter, I, that, accounts. 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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 (Hatter, I, that, accounts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:013-alice-a-mad-tea-party-1.lesson:25 # text = «I dare say» means I suppose; «that accounts for it» means that explains it; «in a twinkling» means in a flash. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 013-alice-a-mad-tea-party-1.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 dare dare VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 4 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 5 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 6 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 suppose suppose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 10 « « PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 11 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 12 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:det 12 accounts account NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:nmod 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 16 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 17 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 18 explains explain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 ccomp _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 21 « « PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 twinkling twinkling NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 25 » » PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 26 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 flash flash NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dare** *in a quote* | present | Hatter | | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | Hatter *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **suppose** | present | I | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **account** *in a quote* | | that | | | | | for beat | tree rules | | 6 | **mean** | present | accounts | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present | that | beat | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 8 | **mean** | present | | | | | | in a flash; in a twinkling | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in twinkling=Attribute | 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. 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