--- title: «I'm a poor man, your Majesty.» — «You're a very poor speaker.» The… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Sto… · tree and pragmatics description: «I'm a poor man, your Majesty.» — «You're a very poor speaker.» The King plays on poor = having little money, and poor = bad. Who acts: King, You. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Stole the Tarts? 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(the Hatter, the cook and a surprise witness), sentence 22 «I'm a poor man, your Majesty.» — «You're a very poor speaker.» The King plays on poor = having little money, and poor = bad. **Who acts:** King, You · **What happens:** be, play, have · **To what, where:** poor man, poor speaker, poor, little money · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Stole the Tarts? (the Hatter, the cook and a surprise witness)» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, You), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:022-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2.lesson:22 # text = «I'm a poor man, your Majesty.» — «You're a very poor speaker.» The King plays on poor = having little money, and poor = bad. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 022-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 3 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 Majesty majesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 vocative _ _ 10 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ 11 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 12 — - PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 13 « « PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 14 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 15 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 17 very very ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 speaker speaker NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ 21 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 22 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 24 plays play VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 25 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 obl _ _ 27 = = PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 28 having have VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 acl _ _ 29 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 parataxis _ _ 34 = = PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 conj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the King *= king* | a poor man | | | | your Majesty *vocative* | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | You | a poor speaker | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **play** | present | the King | | | poor | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **have** | gerund | | little money | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:books:022-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2.lesson:22`. **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): R8-pos-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 XI, part…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/20/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part…, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/23/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/)