--- title: The verses begin «They told me you had been to her, And mentioned me… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice'… · tree and pragmatics description: The verses begin «They told me you had been to her, And mentioned me to him: She gave me a good character, But said I could not swim.» (a good character = a good report about someone). Who acts: verses, you, girl. 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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 (verses, you, girl), 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:16 # text = The verses begin «They told me you had been to her, And mentioned me to him: She gave me a good character, But said I could not swim.» (a good character = a good report about someone). # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 verses verse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 begin begin VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 5 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 7 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 iobj _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ _ 10 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 aux _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 And and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 mentioned mention VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 16 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ _ 19 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 20 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:conj 22 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 iobj _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 character character NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 But but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:parataxis 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 30 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 swim swim VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 ccomp _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 34 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 35 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 38 punct _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 character character NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 39 = = PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 report report NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 appos _ _ 43 about about ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 42 nmod _ _ 45 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 38 punct _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | present | the verses | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | verses *= verse* | | verses *= verse* | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **have** *in a quote* | participle | you | | girl | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **mention** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past | | verses *= verse* | Rabbit | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Topic to he=Recipient | | 5 | **give** *in a quote* | past | girl | a good character | verses *= verse* | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient character=Theme | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | girl *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **not** **swim** *in a quote* | could | verses *= verse* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:16`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-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…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/24-alice-alices-evidence-2/15/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/24-alice-alices-evidence-2/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/24-alice-alices-evidence-2/)