--- title: When Alice says a treacle-well is no such thing, the Dormouse sulks:… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 2: A Mad… · tree and pragmatics description: When Alice says a treacle-well is no such thing, the Dormouse sulks: «If you can't be civil, you'd better finish the story for yourself»; Alice says «I dare say there may be one» (I dare say = I suppose). Who acts: Alice, Dormouse, you, one. 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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, Dormouse, you, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:014-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2.lesson:22 # text = When Alice says a treacle-well is no such thing, the Dormouse sulks: «If you can't be civil, you'd better finish the story for yourself»; Alice says «I dare say there may be one» (I dare say = I suppose). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 014-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2.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 ×6, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 When when ADV WRB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det 5 treacle treacle NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ _ 7 well well INTJ UH _ 11 discourse _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 9 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 11 det _ _ 10 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 ccomp _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:det 14 Dormouse Dormouse PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 15 sulks sulk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 16 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 17 « « PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 18 If if SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 20 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 21 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 22 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 23 cop _ _ 23 civil civil ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 advcl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 better well ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 28 advmod _ _ 28 finish finish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 28 obl _ _ 33 » » PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 34 ; ; PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 parataxis _ _ 37 « « PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ _ 38 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 dare dare VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 ccomp _ _ 40 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 ccomp _ _ 41 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 43 expl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=40:ccomp|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:PronType=Dem 42 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=45:aux 43 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=45:cop|HaikuPos=AUX:VB:VerbForm=Inf 44 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 43 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=45:nummod 45 » » PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=39:punct 46 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 48 punct _ _ 47 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 48 dare dare VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 conj _ _ 49 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 48 ccomp _ _ 50 = = PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 51 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 52 nsubj _ _ 52 suppose suppose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 48 advcl _ _ 53 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 52 punct _ _ 54 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Alice | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **is a** | present | | no such thing | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **sulk** | present | the Dormouse | | | | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **not** **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | can | you | | | | | civil *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **finish** *in a quote* | would | you | the story | | | | for yourself; well *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Alice | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **dare** *in a quote* | present | Alice | | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 9 | **be** *in a quote* | may | one | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 10 | **dare** | present | I | | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 11 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 12 | **suppose** | present | I | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=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:014-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2.lesson:22`. **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 ×6, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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 VII, part…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/14-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2/21/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part…, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/14-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2/24/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/14-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2/)