--- title: When he boasts «we went to school every day», Alice says «I've been… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 2: The Moc… · tree and pragmatics description: When he boasts «we went to school every day», Alice says «I've been to a day-school, too; you needn't be so proud as all that.» Who acts: book, we, Alice, you. 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 Mo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/18-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-2/19/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/18-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-2/) / 19 # Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 2: The Mock Turtle's Story (school under the sea), sentence 19 When he boasts «we went to school every day», Alice says «I've been to a day-school, too; you needn't be so proud as all that.» **Who acts:** book, we, Alice, you · **What happens:** boast, go, say, be, not be · **To what, where:** school · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (book, we, Alice, 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:19 # text = When he boasts «we went to school every day», Alice says «I've been to a day-school, too; you needn't be so proud as all that.» # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 3 mark _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 boasts boast VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 5 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 9 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 10 det _ _ 10 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 11 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 12 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 13 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 « « PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 17 've have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 18 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 23 cop _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 21 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ _ 23 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 ccomp _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 too too ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 28 need need AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 29 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 30 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 32 cop _ _ 31 so so ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 proud proud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 ccomp _ _ 33 as as ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 35 det:predet _ _ 35 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 32 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 32 punct _ _ 37 » » PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **boast** *speech: other* | present | book | | | | | | vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **go** *in a quote* | past | we | | | school | day | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Alice | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Alice | | | | | to a day school | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | as that; proud *property* | tree rules | 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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