--- title: I don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it.» (sixpence = an ol… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice'… · tree and pragmatics description: I don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it.» (sixpence = an old coin; an atom = the tiniest bit). Who acts: I, atom. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice's Evidence (sentence first, a pack of cards, and waking up)» of the books course of Mova's primary scho --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/24-alice-alices-evidence-2/20/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/24-alice-alices-evidence-2/) / 20 # Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice's Evidence (sentence first, a pack of cards, and waking up), sentence 20 I don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it.» (sixpence = an old coin; an atom = the tiniest bit). **Who acts:** I, atom · **What happens:** not believe, be · **To what, where:** meaning · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice's Evidence (sentence first, a pack of cards, and waking up)» 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 (I, 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:20 # text = I don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it.» (sixpence = an old coin; an atom = the tiniest bit). # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 believe believe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 6 expl _ _ 6 's be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 7 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 atom atom NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 meaning meaning NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod 13 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 14 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:NFP:_ 15 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 16 sixpence sixpence NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 17 = = SYM SYM _ 20 punct _ _ 18 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 coin coin NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 atom atom NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 24 = = SYM SYM _ 27 punct _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 tiniest tiny ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 27 amod _ _ 27 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 28 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 29 . . 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 | **not** **believe** | present · do-support | I | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **be** | present | a atom of meaning | | | meaning; there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location | 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:20`. **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, 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…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/24-alice-alices-evidence-2/18/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/24-alice-alices-evidence-2/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/24-alice-alices-evidence-2/)