--- title: «You never had fits, my dear?» «Never!» says the Queen, throwing an… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice'… · tree and pragmatics description: «You never had fits, my dear?» «Never!» says the Queen, throwing an inkstand at the Lizard; Bill uses the ink trickling down his face to write again. Who acts: You, Queen, Bill, ink. 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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, Queen, Bill, ink), 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:25 # text = «You never had fits, my dear?» «Never!» says the Queen, throwing an inkstand at the Lizard; Bill uses the ink trickling down his face to write again. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 2 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 fits fit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ _ 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ 10 » » PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 11 « « PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 12 Never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 13 ! ! PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ 14 » » PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 15 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 throwing throw VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 20 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 inkstand inkstand NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 Lizard lizard NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nmod 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 Bill Bill PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:conj 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 ink ink NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 trickling trickle VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 acl _ _ 31 down down ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 write write VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 advcl _ _ 36 again again ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **have** *in a quote* | past | You | fits | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | present | the Queen | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **throw** | gerund | the Queen *not said here* | a inkstand | | the Lizard | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent inkstand=Theme at lizard=Destination | | 4 | **use** | present | Bill | the ink | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ink=Patient | | 5 | **trickle down** | gerund | the ink *not said here* | Bill's face | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location face=Source | | 6 | **write** | to-infinitive | the ink *not said here* | | | | again | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:25`. **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 ×1, 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…, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/24-alice-alices-evidence-2/24/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part…, 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/24-alice-alices-evidence-2/28/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/24-alice-alices-evidence-2/)