--- title: Alice "generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very sel… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 2: The hall… · tree and pragmatics description: Alice "generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it)", and she once tried to box her own ears for cheating at croquet against herself; to "box someone's ears" means to slap them on the side of the head, which nobody should do today. Who acts: Alice, nobody. 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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, nobody), 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:17 # text = Alice "generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it)", and she once tried to box her own ears for cheating at croquet against herself; to "box someone's ears" means to slap them on the side of the head, which nobody should do today. # 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct 3 generally generally ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 4 iobj _ _ 6 very very ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 advice advice NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 10 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 15 punct _ _ 11 though though SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 12 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 very very ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 seldom seldom ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 followed follow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 15 punct _ _ 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 23 advmod _ _ 23 tried try VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 box box VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 26 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:nmod 29 for for SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 30 cheating cheat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ _ 31 at at ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 croquet croquet NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 33 against against ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 30 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:nmod 35 ; ; PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 37 " " PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=41:punct 38 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 39 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 41 nmod:poss _ _ 40 's 's PART POS _ 39 case _ _ 41 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 appos _ _ 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 41 punct _ _ 43 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 44 to to PART TO _ 45 mark _ _ 45 slap slap VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 43 xcomp _ _ 46 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 obj _ _ 47 on on ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ _ 50 of of ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nmod _ _ 53 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 54 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 57 obj _ _ 55 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 57 nsubj _ _ 56 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 57 aux _ _ 57 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 45 acl:relcl _ _ 58 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 obl:unmarked _ _ 59 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** *in a quote* | past | Alice | good advice | Alice | | | generally *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent herself=Recipient advice=Theme | | 2 | **follow** *in a quote* | past | Alice | advice | | | | seldom *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **try** | past | Alice | | | | | once *property* | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **box** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | Alice's own ears | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Co-Agent | | 5 | **cheat** | gerund | Alice *not said here* | | | croquet | | against Alice | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **mean** | present | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **slap** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | ears *= ear* | | | | on the side of the head | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent they=Instrument on side=Patient | | 8 | **do** | should | nobody | | | | today | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality | 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:17`. **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 ×3, 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 I, part 2…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/2-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door/16/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 2…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/2-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/2-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door/)