--- title: The King finds «meaning» anyway: «said I could not swim» fits the Kn… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice'… · tree and pragmatics description: The King finds «meaning» anyway: «said I could not swim» fits the Knave, who is made of cardboard; «they all returned from him to you» — why, there are the tarts on the table! Who acts: King, I, verses, tarts. 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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 (King, I, verses, tarts), 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:3 # text = The King finds «meaning» anyway: «said I could not swim» fits the Knave, who is made of cardboard; «they all returned from him to you» — why, there are the tarts on the table! # 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 ×4 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 finds find VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 5 meaning mean NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 7 anyway anyway ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advmod 8 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 9 « « PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 10 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:csubj 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 swim swim VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 ccomp _ _ 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 16 fits fit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 Knave knave NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 acl:relcl _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 cardboard cardboard NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 « « PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 27 dep _ _ 29 returned return VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 30 from from ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obl _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 obl _ _ 34 » » PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ 35 — - PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 36 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 39 advmod _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 39 expl _ _ 39 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 tarts tart NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ _ 42 on on ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod _ _ 45 ! ! 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 | **find** | present | the King | meaning | | | | anyway *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mean=Topic | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **swim** *in a quote* | could | I | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **fit** | present | the King *not said here* | the Knave | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **make** | present · passive | | the Knave | | | | of cardboard | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 6 | **return** *in a quote* | past | verses *= verse* | | you | | | from King | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient from he=Initial\_State to you=Result | | 7 | **does** | present | the tarts on the table | | | 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:3`. **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 ×4. **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…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/24-alice-alices-evidence-2/2/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/24-alice-alices-evidence-2/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/24-alice-alices-evidence-2/)