--- title: The Duchess greets Alice: «You can't think how glad I am to see you… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Moc… · tree and pragmatics description: The Duchess greets Alice: «You can't think how glad I am to see you again, you dear old thing!» Who acts: Duchess, Alice. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Mock Turtle's Story (the Duchess and her morals)» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its dep --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/17-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-1/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/17-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-1/) / 11 # Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Mock Turtle's Story (the Duchess and her morals), sentence 11 The Duchess greets Alice: «You can't think how glad I am to see you again, you dear old thing!» **Who acts:** Duchess, Alice · **What happens:** greet, not think, be, see, thing · **To what, where:** Alice · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Mock Turtle's Story (the Duchess and her morals)» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Duchess, 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:11 # text = The Duchess greets Alice: «You can't think how glad I am to see you again, you dear old thing!» # 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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Duchess Duchess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 greets greet VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 7 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 8 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 11 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 advmod _ _ 12 glad glad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 ccomp _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 14 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 again again ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 22 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 24 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 25 » » 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 | **greet** *speech: greet* | present | the Duchess | | Alice | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alice=Theme | | 2 | **not** **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | can | Alice | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the Duchess *= duchess* | | | | | glad *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **see** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Duchess *= duchess* *not said here* | Alice | | | again | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | | 5 | **thing** *in a quote* | | Alice | | | | | | 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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