--- title: The regular course: Reeling and Writhing (reading and writing); Ambi… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 2: The Moc… · tree and pragmatics description: The regular course: Reeling and Writhing (reading and writing); Ambition, Distraction, Uglification and Derision (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division); the Gryphon asks if she knows what «beautify» is, and Alice says doubtfully «it means—to—make—anything—prettier», so «uglify» must me --- [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-2/22/) [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/) / 22 # Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 2: The Mock Turtle's Story (school under the sea), sentence 22 The regular course: Reeling and Writhing (reading and writing); Ambition, Distraction, Uglification and Derision (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division); the Gryphon asks if she knows what «beautify» is, and Alice says doubtfully «it means—to—make—anything—prettier», so «uglify» must mean the opposite. **Who acts:** Gryphon, school, Alice, division · **What happens:** reeling, ask, know, beautify, be, say · **To what, where:** anything, opposite · **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 (Gryphon, school, Alice, division), 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:22 # text = The regular course: Reeling and Writhing (reading and writing); Ambition, Distraction, Uglification and Derision (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division); the Gryphon asks if she knows what «beautify» is, and Alice says doubtfully «it means—to—make—anything—prettier», so «uglify» must mean the opposite. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 regular regular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 course course NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 dislocated _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 5 Reeling reeling VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 appos _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 Writhing writhing NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 8 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 9 reading reading NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:appos 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 writing writing NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 Ambition ambition NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:appos 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 Distraction distraction NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 Uglification uglification NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 Derision derision NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 21 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 22 addition addition NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 appos _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 subtraction subtraction NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 multiplication multiplication NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:appos 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 division division NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 29 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 Gryphon gryphon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=33:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 33 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 34 if if SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 35 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 ccomp _ _ 37 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 39 obj _ _ 38 « « PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 beautify beautify VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 ccomp _ _ 40 » » PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=41:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 41 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 parataxis _ _ 42 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 44 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 45 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 46 doubtfully doubtfully ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 47 « « PUNCT `` _ 49 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=49:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 48 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 nsubj _ _ 49 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 ccomp _ _ 50 — - PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 51 to to ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 52 — - PUNCT : _ 51 punct _ _ 53 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 49 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=49:ccomp 54 — - PUNCT : _ 55 punct _ _ 55 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 53 obj _ _ 56 — - PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 57 prettier pretty ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 53 xcomp _ _ 58 » » PUNCT '' _ 49 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=53:punct 59 , , PUNCT , _ 65 punct _ _ 60 so so ADV RB _ 65 advmod _ _ 61 « « PUNCT `` _ 62 punct _ _ 62 uglify uglify VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 65 nsubj _ _ 63 » » PUNCT '' _ 62 punct _ _ 64 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 65 aux _ _ 65 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 45 parataxis _ _ 66 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 67 det _ _ 67 opposite opposite NOUN NN Number=Sing 65 obj _ _ 68 . . PUNCT . _ 33 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reeling** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | the Gryphon | | | | | the regular course *dislocated* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **know** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | school | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **beautify** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent what=Patient | | 5 | **be** | present | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Alice | | | | | doubtfully *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **mean** *in a quote* | present | division | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **make** *not said to happen, in a quote* | infinitive | division *not said here* | anything | | | | pretty *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset anything=Product | | 9 | **uglify** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **mean** | must | | the opposite | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opposite=Topic | 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:22`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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. 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