--- title: Two explains: «this here ought to have been a red rose-tree, and we… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 1: The Q… · tree and pragmatics description: Two explains: «this here ought to have been a red rose-tree, and we put a white one in by mistake»; «afore she comes» is old country talk for before she comes. Who acts: Two, this, we, Seven. 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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 (Two, this, we, Seven), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:015-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-1.lesson:16 # text = Two explains: «this here ought to have been a red rose-tree, and we put a white one in by mistake»; «afore she comes» is old country talk for before she comes. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 015-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-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): no change 1 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nsubj _ _ 2 explains explain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 5 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 15 nsubj _ _ 6 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 15 advmod _ _ 7 ought ought AUX MD _ 15 aux _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 9 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 15 aux _ _ 10 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 15 cop _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 12 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 13 rose rose NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ _ 15 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 ccomp _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 by by ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 mistake mistake NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 26 » » PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 « « PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 29 afore afore ADJ GW Degree=Pos|Typo=Yes 31 mark _ _ 30 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 32 » » PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 34 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 35 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 talk talk NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 ccomp _ _ 37 for for ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 before before SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 39 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 advcl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present | Two | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | ought · perfect | this | a red rose tree | | here | | | tree rules | | 3 | **put** *in a quote* | past | we | a white one | | mistake | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Theme in mistake=Destination | | 4 | **come** *in a quote* | present | Seven | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | present | | old country talk | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **come** | present | Seven | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:015-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-1.lesson:16`. **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): no change. **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 VIII, par…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/15-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-1/14/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, par…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/15-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-1/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/15-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-1/)