--- title: So many out-of-the-way things had happened that Alice "had begun to… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 2: The hall… · tree and pragmatics description: So many out-of-the-way things had happened that Alice "had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible". Who acts: Alice, few things. 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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, few things), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:002-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door.lesson:11 # text = So many out-of-the-way things had happened that Alice "had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 002-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door.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 ×1 1 So so ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 3 out out ADP IN _ 12 mark _ _ 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 12 advmod _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:det 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ _ 9 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 happened happen VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 13 that that SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 14 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 16 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 begun begin VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 20 that that SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 21 very very ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 24 indeed indeed ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 25 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 26 really really ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 impossible impossible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 ccomp _ _ 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | past · perfect · passive | | many way things | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **begin** *in a quote* | past · perfect | Alice | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | past | few things | | | | | impossible, indeed *property* | 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:002-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door.lesson:11`. **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 ×1. **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 I, part 2…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/2-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door/10/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 2…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/2-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/2-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door/)