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title: How I wonder what you're at!» (it goes on «Up above the world you fl… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 1: A Mad… · tree and pragmatics
description: How I wonder what you're at!» (it goes on «Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky») is a silly copy of the children's song «Twinkle, twinkle, little star», just as Alice's poems in chapters II and V came out wrong. Who acts: I, beat, you, V. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderl
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 1: A Mad Tea-Party (no room, riddles and Time), sentence 27

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How I wonder what you're at!» (it goes on «Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky») is a silly copy of the children's song «Twinkle, twinkle, little star», just as Alice's poems in chapters II and V came out wrong.

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**Who acts:** I, beat, you, V, children · **What happens:** wonder, go on, « up, fly, be, come out · **To what, where:** silly copy, world · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 1: A Mad Tea-Party (no room, riddles and Time)» 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, beat, you, V), 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:27
# text = How I wonder what you're at!» (it goes on «Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky») is a silly copy of the children's song «Twinkle, twinkle, little star», just as Alice's poems in chapters II and V came out wrong.
# 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): R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wonder	wonder	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	advcl	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
13	on	on	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	«	«	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	ccomp	_	_
15	Up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	above	above	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	fly	fly	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	_
26	tray	tray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	parataxis	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:det
29	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:compound
30	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
31	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	copy	copy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nmod:poss	_	_
39	's	's	PART	POS	_	38	case	_	_
40	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=42:compound
41	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	42	punct	_	_
42	Twinkle	twinkle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
44	twinkle	twinkle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	_
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=48:amod
47	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	_
48	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	42	punct	_	_
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
50	just	just	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
51	as	as	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
52	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	54	nmod:poss	_	_
53	's	's	PART	POS	_	52	case	_	_
54	poems	poem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	appos	_	_
55	in	in	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	chapters	chapter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=54:conj
57	II	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	56	flat	_	_
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
59	V	V	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	60	nsubj	_	_
60	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	conj	_	_
61	out	out	ADV	RB	_	60	advmod	_	_
62	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	xcomp	_	_
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	35	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 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | present | I | a silly copy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go on** *in a quote* | present | beat |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **« up** | participle |  |  |  | the world |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fly** | present | you | the world *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location world=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | a silly copy |  |  |  | of Twinkle and twinkle; the children's song *nmod* | tree rules |
| 6 | **come out** *in a quote* | past | V |  |  |  |  | out, wrong *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **sing** *in a quote* |  | the children |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=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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**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:013-alice-a-mad-tea-party-1.lesson:27`.

**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 ×4, 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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