--- title: Whenever Alice asks a sensible question, the two creatures call her… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 2: The Moc… · tree and pragmatics description: Whenever Alice asks a sensible question, the two creatures call her dull and tell her to be ashamed, and Alice feels ready to sink into the earth. Who acts: Alice, two 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 (Alice, two 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:8 # text = Whenever Alice asks a sensible question, the two creatures call her dull and tell her to be ashamed, and Alice feels ready to sink into the earth. # 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 1 Whenever whenever SCONJ WRB _ 3 mark _ _ 2 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 sensible sensible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 creatures creature NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 her her PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 dull dull ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 16 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 iobj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 18 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 ashamed ashamed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 24 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 xcomp _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 sink sink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 into into ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 11 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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Alice | a sensible question | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | | 2 | **call** | present | the two creatures | | Alice | | | dull *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent her=Recipient | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the two creatures *not said here* | | Alice | | | ashamed *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | | 4 | **feel** | present | Alice | | | | | ready *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **sink** | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | | | the earth | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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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