--- title: The sisters draw everything that begins with M: «mouse-traps, and th… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 2: A Mad… · tree and pragmatics description: The sisters draw everything that begins with M: «mouse-traps, and the moon, and memory, and muchness»; «much of a muchness» is an old saying for nearly the same. Who acts: sisters, ». 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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 (sisters, »), 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:26 # text = The sisters draw everything that begins with M: «mouse-traps, and the moon, and memory, and muchness»; «much of a muchness» is an old saying for nearly the same. # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sisters sister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 draw draw VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 3 obj _ _ 5 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 begins begin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 M M NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 10 « « PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 11 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ _ 13 traps trap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 appos _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 memory memory NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 muchness muchness NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 24 » » PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 26 « « PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct 27 much much ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:det 30 muchness muchness NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:compound 31 » » NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 33 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 saying saying NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 36 for for ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 obl _ _ 40 . . 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 | **draw** | present | the sisters | everything | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme | | 2 | **begin** | present | | | | | | with M | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with m=Subeventuality | | 3 | **is a** | present | » | a old saying | | | | for the same | tree rules | 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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