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title: The Gryphon chuckles: it's all her fancy, «they never executes nobod… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 2: The Moc… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Gryphon chuckles: it's all her fancy, «they never executes nobody». Who acts: Gryphon, executions. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 2: The Mock Turtle's Story (school under the sea)» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 2: The Mock Turtle's Story (school under the sea), sentence 1

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The Gryphon chuckles: it's all her fancy, «they never executes nobody».

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**Who acts:** Gryphon, executions · **What happens:** chuckle, be, not execute · **To what, where:** fancy, nobody

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 2: The Mock Turtle's Story (school under the sea)» 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 (Gryphon, executions), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:018-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-2.lesson:1
# text = The Gryphon chuckles: it's all her fancy, «they never executes nobody».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 018-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-2.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:det
2	Gryphon	gryphon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	chuckles	chuckle	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
6	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	all	all	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	fancy	fancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	executes	execute	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	14	obj	_	_
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chuckle** | present | the Gryphon |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Gryphon | eagle's fancy |  |  |  | all *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **execute** *in a quote* | present | executions *= execution* | nobody |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nobody=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:018-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-2.lesson:1`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, 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/).

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