--- title: A Gryphon (also spelled griffin) is a creature from old stories, hal… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 2: The Moc… · tree and pragmatics description: A Gryphon (also spelled griffin) is a creature from old stories, half eagle and half lion; the book says «If you don't know what a Gryphon is, look at the picture». Who acts: Gryphon, book, you. 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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 (Gryphon, book, you), 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:11 # text = A Gryphon (also spelled griffin) is a creature from old stories, half eagle and half lion; the book says «If you don't know what a Gryphon is, look at the picture». # 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Gryphon gryphon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 6 punct _ _ 4 also also ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 spelled spell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 amod _ _ 6 griffin griffin NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 7 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 6 punct _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 creature creature NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 11 from from ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 half half ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 16 amod _ _ 16 eagle eagle NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 parataxis _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 19 compound _ _ 19 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 24 « « PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ _ 25 If if SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 27 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 29 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:ccomp 30 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 29 obj _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 Gryphon gryphon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 35 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:conj 36 at at ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 » » PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 10 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 | **spell** | participle | | | | | | | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | a Gryphon | a creature | | old stories | | | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the book | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **not** **know** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present · do-support | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | a Gryphon | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **look** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | at the picture | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at picture=Theme | 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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