--- title: The Duchess says she won't put her arm round Alice's waist because s… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Moc… · tree and pragmatics description: The Duchess says she won't put her arm round Alice's waist because she is «doubtful about the temper of your flamingo». Who acts: 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 (Duchess), 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:19 # text = The Duchess says she won't put her arm round Alice's waist because she is «doubtful about the temper of your flamingo». # 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 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 5 wo will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 8 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 round round ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 's 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 waist waist NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 14 because because SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 15 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 17 « « PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 18 doubtful doubtful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 advcl _ _ 19 about about ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 temper temper NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 flamingo flamingo NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 » » PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Duchess | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **put** | future | Duchess | Duchess's arm | | | | round Alice's waist | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent arm=Goal | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Duchess | | | | | about the temper of your flamingo; doubtful *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **temper** *in a quote* | | | your flamingo | | | | | nom temper «feeling transitive»: of=patient | 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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