--- title: Out of prison, the Duchess is suddenly sweet to Alice: «You dear old… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Moc… · tree and pragmatics description: Out of prison, the Duchess is suddenly sweet to Alice: «You dear old thing!» She tucks her arm into Alice's and walks with her. Who acts: Duchess, You, Alice. 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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 (Duchess, You, Alice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:017-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-1.lesson:0 # text = Out of prison, the Duchess is suddenly sweet to Alice: «You dear old thing!» She tucks her arm into Alice's and walks with her. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 017-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Out out ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 prison prison NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Duchess Duchess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 13 « « PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 14 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 16 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 18 ! ! PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ 19 » » PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 20 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 tucks tuck VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 22 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 into into ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 26 's 's PART POS _ 25 case _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 walks walk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the Duchess | | Alice | prison | | suddenly, sweet *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **thing** *in a quote* | | You | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **tuck** | present | Alice | Alice's arm | | Alice | | | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent arm=Theme into alice=Destination | | 4 | **walk** | present | Alice *not said here* | | | | | with Alice | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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:017-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-1.lesson:0`. **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): 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 VIII, par…, 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/16-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-2/29/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/17-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-1/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/17-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-1/)