--- title: In the sister's half-dream, Wonderland's sounds turn back into real… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice'… · tree and pragmatics description: In the sister's half-dream, Wonderland's sounds turn back into real ones: the rattling teacups into tinkling sheep-bells, the Queen's shrill cries into the voice of the shepherd boy, the Mock Turtle's sobs into the lowing (mooing) of cattle. Who acts: sounds, sister, Queen, Mock Turtle. 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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 (sounds, sister, Queen, Mock Turtle), 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:36 # text = In the sister's half-dream, Wonderland's sounds turn back into real ones: the rattling teacups into tinkling sheep-bells, the Queen's shrill cries into the voice of the shepherd boy, the Mock Turtle's sobs into the lowing (mooing) of cattle. # 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 In in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 7 compound _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 7 dream dream NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 9 Wonderland wonderland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 sounds sound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 back back ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 into into ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 17 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 rattling rattling NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 teacups teacup NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 21 into into SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 22 tinkling tinkle VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 23 sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 25 bells bell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod:poss _ _ 29 's 's PART POS _ 28 case _ _ 30 shrill shrill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 cries cry NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 32 into into ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 shepherd shepherd NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 Mock mock PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=42:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 42 Turtle Turtle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=44:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 43 's 's PART POS _ 42 case _ _ 44 sobs sob NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 conj _ _ 45 into into ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 lowing lowing NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:nmod 48 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 49 punct _ _ 49 mooing moo VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 47 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=47:acl 50 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 49 punct _ _ 51 of of ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 52 cattle cattle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 nmod _ _ 53 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn back** | present | Wonderland's sounds | | | the sister's half dream | | into real ones and the rattling teacups | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **tinkle** | gerund | Wonderland's sounds *not said here* | sheep and bells | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **moo** | gerund | | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **dream** | | the sister | | | | | | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | | 5 | **cry** | | the Queen | | | the voice of the shepherd boy | | | nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=agent into=place | | 6 | **sob** | | the Mock Turtle | | | the lowing of cattle | | | nom sob «state intransitive»: poss=agent into=place | 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:36`. **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…, 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/24-alice-alices-evidence-2/32/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part…, 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/24-alice-alices-evidence-2/37/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/24-alice-alices-evidence-2/)