--- title: Alice thinks: «I don't see how he can ever finish, if he doesn't beg… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 2: The Moc… · tree and pragmatics description: Alice thinks: «I don't see how he can ever finish, if he doesn't begin.» Who acts: Alice, book. 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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 (Alice, book), 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:16 # text = Alice thinks: «I don't see how he can ever finish, if he doesn't begin.» # 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): no change 1 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 thinks think VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 6 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ _ 9 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 13 advmod _ _ 13 finish finish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 ccomp _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 if if SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 begin begin VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 21 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Alice | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **not** **see** *in a quote* | present · do-support | Alice | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **finish** *in a quote* | can | book | | | | ever | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **not** **begin** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present · do-support | book | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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:018-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-2.lesson:16`. **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): no change. **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…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/18-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-2/15/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/18-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-2/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/18-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-2/)