--- title: Alice says «It belongs to the Duchess: you'd better ask her about it… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 2: The Q… · tree and pragmatics description: Alice says «It belongs to the Duchess: you'd better ask her about it»; the Duchess is in prison, and the executioner goes off «like an arrow» to fetch her. Who acts: Alice, head, you, Duchess. 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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, head, you, Duchess), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:016-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-2.lesson:27 # text = Alice says «It belongs to the Duchess: you'd better ask her about it»; the Duchess is in prison, and the executioner goes off «like an arrow» to fetch her. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 016-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 4 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 belongs belong VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 Duchess duchess NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 better well ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 13 advmod _ _ 13 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 14 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 iobj _ _ 15 about about ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obl _ _ 17 » » PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 Duchess duchess NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 prison prison NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 parataxis _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 executioner executioner NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 29 off off PART RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 30 « « PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ _ 31 like like ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 arrow arrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 34 » » PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=36:punct 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 fetch fetch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ _ 37 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | 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 | **belong** *in a quote* | present | head | | | | | to the Duchess | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | would | you | | Alice | | | about head; well *property* | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **is** | present | the Duchess | | | prison | | | tree rules | | 5 | **go off** | present | the executioner | | | | | like a arrow | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **fetch** | to-infinitive | the executioner *not said here* | Alice | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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. 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