--- title: The Classics master was an old crab who taught «Laughing and Grief»… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 2: The Moc… · tree and pragmatics description: The Classics master was an old crab who taught «Laughing and Grief» (Latin and Greek, the languages studied as «classics»); remembering him, «both creatures hid their faces in their paws». Who acts: Classics master, old crab, languages, creatures. 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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 (Classics master, old crab, languages, creatures), 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:24 # text = The Classics master was an old crab who taught «Laughing and Grief» (Latin and Greek, the languages studied as «classics»); remembering him, «both creatures hid their faces in their paws». # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Classics classic NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 compound _ _ 3 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 crab crab NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 parataxis _ _ 8 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 taught teach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 « « PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 11 Laughing laugh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=11:cc 13 Grief Grief PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 14 » » PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 15 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 16 Latin Latin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 Greek Greek PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 languages language NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 studied study VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 23 as as ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 « « PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 25 classics classic NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 26 » » PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 27 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 remembering remember VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 30 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct 32 « « PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ _ 33 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 34 det _ _ 34 creatures creature NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 35 hid hide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 36 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 faces face NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 paws paw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ _ 41 » » PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | the Classics master | a old crab | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | a old crab | | Laughing and Grief and Latin and Greek | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent laugh=Recipient | | 3 | **study** | past | the languages | | | | | as classics | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent as classic=Value | | 4 | **remember** | gerund | the Classics master *not said here* | Greek | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 5 | **hide** *in a quote* | past | both creatures | languages's faces | | languages's paws | | | 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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