--- title: Alice, who has grown so large she isn't a bit afraid, offers sixpenc… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice'… · tree and pragmatics description: Alice, who has grown so large she isn't a bit afraid, offers sixpence to anyone who can explain them: «I don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it.» Who acts: Alice, verses, atom. 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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, verses, atom), 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:2 # text = Alice, who has grown so large she isn't a bit afraid, offers sixpence to anyone who can explain them: «I don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it.» # 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): R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 4 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 1 acl:relcl _ _ 6 so so ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ 8 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 10 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl:unmarked _ _ 13 afraid afraid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 offers offer VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 sixpence sixpence NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 15 obl _ _ 19 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 explain explain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 acl:relcl _ _ 22 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 : : PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 24 « « PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 believe believe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 parataxis _ _ 29 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 30 expl _ _ 30 's be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 ccomp _ _ 31 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 atom atom NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 meaning meaning NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ 38 » » PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:NFP:_ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | present · perfect | Alice | | | | | large *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **not** **is** | present | Alice | | | | | a bit *obl:unmarked*; afraid *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **offer** | present | Alice | sixpence | anyone | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent sixpence=Theme to anyone=Goal | | 4 | **explain** *speech: assert* | can | | verses *= verse* | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | | 5 | **not** **believe** *in a quote* | present · do-support | verses *= verse* | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 6 | **be** *in a quote* | present | a atom of meaning in meaning | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «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:2`. **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 ×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…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/24-alice-alices-evidence-2/1/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/24-alice-alices-evidence-2/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/24-alice-alices-evidence-2/)