--- title: «It proves nothing of the sort!» she says: «you don't even know what… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 1: Alice'… · tree and pragmatics description: «It proves nothing of the sort!» she says: «you don't even know what they're about!» So the King orders the verses read, with famous advice: «Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop.» Who acts: court, Queen, you, King. 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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 (court, Queen, you, King), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:023-alice-alices-evidence-1.lesson:15 # text = «It proves nothing of the sort!» she says: «you don't even know what they're about!» So the King orders the verses read, with famous advice: «Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop.» # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 023-alice-alices-evidence-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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 proves prove VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:parataxis 4 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 3 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 sort sort NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 9 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 13 « « PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 15 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 16 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 17 even even ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:parataxis 19 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 18 obj _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 about about ADP IN _ 19 acl:relcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 23 ! ! PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ 24 » » PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 25 So so ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 28 orders order VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 verses verse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 31 read read VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 advice advice NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 36 : : PUNCT : _ 38 punct _ _ 37 « « PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ _ 38 Begin begin VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 parataxis _ _ 39 at at ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 beginning beginning NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 42 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=38:cc 44 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 conj _ _ 45 on on ADP RP _ 44 compound:prt _ _ 46 till till SCONJ IN _ 48 mark _ _ 47 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 48 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 advcl _ _ 49 to to ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obl _ _ 52 : : PUNCT : _ 54 punct _ _ 53 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 54 advmod _ _ 54 stop stop VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 38 conj _ _ 55 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ 56 » » PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **prove** *in a quote* | present | court | nothing | | | | | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: express* | present | Queen | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **know** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | | 4 | **order** | present | the King | the verses | | | | | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent verse=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **read** *not said to happen* | infinitive | the verses *not said here* | | | | | with famous advice | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **begin** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | at the beginning | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 7 | **go on** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **come** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | to the end | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial\_Location | | 9 | **stop** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | then | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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:023-alice-alices-evidence-1.lesson:15`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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 XII, part…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/23-alice-alices-evidence-1/13/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/23-alice-alices-evidence-1/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/23-alice-alices-evidence-1/)