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title: «I make you a present of everything I've said,» says the Duchess, an… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Moc… · tree and pragmatics
description: «I make you a present of everything I've said,» says the Duchess, and Alice thinks: a cheap sort of present! 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
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Mock Turtle's Story (the Duchess and her morals), sentence 5

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«I make you a present of everything I've said,» says the Duchess, and Alice thinks: a cheap sort of present!

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**Who acts:** Duchess, Alice · **What happens:** make, say, think, sort · **To what, where:** present, you, cheap sort · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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:5
# text = «I make you a present of everything I've said,» says the Duchess, and Alice thinks: a cheap sort of present!
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:parataxis
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obj
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	6	nmod	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	've	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
14	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	cheap	cheap	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** *in a quote* | present | the Duchess *= duchess* | a present of everything | you |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary present=Product |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present · perfect | the Duchess *= duchess* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Duchess |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Alice | a cheap sort of present |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sort=Theme |
| 5 | **sort** |  |  | present |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**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:5`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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/).

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