--- title: «I've a right to think,» says Alice; «Just about as much right as pi… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Moc… · tree and pragmatics description: «I've a right to think,» says Alice; «Just about as much right as pigs have to fly,» says the Duchess — then the Queen appears and her voice dies away. Who acts: Duchess, Alice, pigs, Queen. 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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, Alice, pigs, Queen), 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:25 # text = «I've a right to think,» says Alice; «Just about as much right as pigs have to fly,» says the Duchess — then the Queen appears and her voice dies away. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 've have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 right right NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 acl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 » » PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 10 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 11 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obj 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 13 « « PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 14 Just just ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 about about ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 16 as as ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 much much ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 18 right right ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 19 as as SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 pigs pig NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 ccomp _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 25 » » PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 26 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 Duchess Duchess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 29 — - PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 33 advmod _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 appears appear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 37 dies die VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 38 away away ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Duchess *not said here* | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Alice | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present | pigs | | | | | about, right *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **fly** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | pigs *not said here* | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Duchess | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **appear** | present | the Queen | | | | then | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **die away** | present | Duchess's voice | | | | | away *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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:25`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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 IX, part…, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/17-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-1/22/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part…, 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/17-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-1/26/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/17-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-1/)