--- title: Alice starts «I've often seen them at dinn—» (dinner) and stops; the… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1: The Lobs… · tree and pragmatics description: Alice starts «I've often seen them at dinn—» (dinner) and stops; the Mock Turtle says «I don't know where Dinn may be». Who acts: Alice, Mock 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 (Alice, Mock Turtle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:019-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-1.lesson:21 # text = Alice starts «I've often seen them at dinn—» (dinner) and stops; the Mock Turtle says «I don't know where Dinn may be». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 019-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-1.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 5 've have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 often often ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:advcl 8 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 dinn dinn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 — - PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 12 » » PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 13 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 14 punct _ _ 14 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 appos _ _ 15 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 14 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 Mock mock PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 21 Turtle Turtle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 22 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 23 « « SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 25 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 ccomp _ _ 28 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 31 advmod _ _ 29 Dinn Dinn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 appos _ _ 30 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 ccomp _ _ 32 » » PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 33 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate, hedge=0 | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **start** | present | Alice | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **see** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Alice | pebbles *= pebble* | | dinn | | often *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | | 3 | **stop** | present | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Mock Turtle | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **not** **know** *in a quote* | present · do-support | the Mock Turtle *= turtle* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 6 | **be** *in a quote* | may | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:019-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-1.lesson:21`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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 X, part 1…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/19-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-1/20/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1…, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/19-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-1/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/19-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-1/)