--- title: The White Rabbit reads the verses: six muddled verses full of «he»,… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice'… · tree and pragmatics description: The White Rabbit reads the verses: six muddled verses full of «he», «she», «they» and «you», where you can never tell who is who. Who acts: White Rabbit, verses. 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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 (White Rabbit, verses), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:024-alice-alices-evidence-2.lesson:0 # text = The White Rabbit reads the verses: six muddled verses full of «he», «she», «they» and «you», where you can never tell who is who. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 024-alice-alices-evidence-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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×6, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 White white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 Rabbit rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 reads read VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 verses verse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 8 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 9 muddled muddle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 amod _ _ 10 verses verse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 appos _ _ 11 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 « « PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ _ 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 « « PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 18 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 19 » » PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct 20 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 21 « « PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 23 » » PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 25 « « PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 conj _ _ 27 » » PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 28 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 29 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 33 advmod _ _ 30 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 31 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 34 who who PRON WP PronType=Int 33 ccomp _ _ 35 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 36 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 34 nsubj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **read** | present | the White Rabbit | the verses | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verse=Topic | | 2 | **muddle** | participle | | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | can | verses *= verse* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | | | | | | | 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:024-alice-alices-evidence-2.lesson:0`. **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 ×6, 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 XII, part…, 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/23-alice-alices-evidence-1/34/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/24-alice-alices-evidence-2/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/24-alice-alices-evidence-2/)