--- title: «You can't swim, can you?» the King asks the Knave; «Do I look like… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice'… · tree and pragmatics description: «You can't swim, can you?» the King asks the Knave; «Do I look like it?» — he is made entirely of cardboard. Who acts: 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 (You, King), 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:23 # text = «You can't swim, can you?» the King asks the Knave; «Do I look like it?» — he is made entirely of cardboard. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 2 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 swim swim VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 10 » » PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 13 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 Knave knave NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 « « PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 18 Do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj 21 like like ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ _ 23 ? ? PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ 24 » » PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 25 — - PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 29 entirely entirely ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 cardboard cardboard NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: yes/no question - act: ask - voice: character - polarity: pos - teacher: changed form=q, act=ask | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **swim** *in a quote* | can | You | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | the King | the Knave | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent knave=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **look** *in a quote* | present · do-support | the King *= king* | | | | | like Knave | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **make** | present · passive | | King | | | | of cardboard | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | 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:23`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×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…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/24-alice-alices-evidence-2/21/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part…, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/24-alice-alices-evidence-2/24/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/24-alice-alices-evidence-2/)