--- title: The Mock Turtle tells them to sit and not speak until he has finishe… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 2: The Moc… · tree and pragmatics description: The Mock Turtle tells them to sit and not speak until he has finished — and then says nothing for ages, until at last: «Once I was a real Turtle.» Who acts: Mock Turtle, Turtle. 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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 (Mock Turtle, Turtle), 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:5 # text = The Mock Turtle tells them to sit and not speak until he has finished — and then says nothing for ages, until at last: «Once I was a real Turtle.» # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Mock mock NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Turtle turtle NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 iobj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 sit sit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 11 until until SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 finished finish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 15 — - PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 18 advmod _ _ 18 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis 19 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 18 obj _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 ages age NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nmod 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 until until ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 at at ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 conj _ _ 26 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 27 « « PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ _ 28 Once once SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 Turtle turtle NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:ccomp 34 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ 35 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the Mock Turtle | | beheadings *= beheading* | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **sit** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Mock Turtle *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive | the Mock Turtle *not said here* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **finish** | present · perfect | Turtle | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Mock Turtle *not said here* | nothing | | | for ages; then | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | | 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | the Mock Turtle *= turtle* | a real Turtle | | | | | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:018-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-2.lesson:5`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/18-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-2/3/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/18-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-2/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/18-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-2/)