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title: She tells herself "You ought to be ashamed of yourself, a great girl… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curious… · tree and pragmatics
description: She tells herself "You ought to be ashamed of yourself, a great girl like you", a joke because she really is great, meaning huge, and orders herself: "Stop this moment, I tell you!", but goes on crying all the same. Who acts: Alice. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: 
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curiouser and curiouser (who am I?), sentence 10

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She tells herself "You ought to be ashamed of yourself, a great girl like you", a joke because she really is great, meaning huge, and orders herself: "Stop this moment, I tell you!", but goes on crying all the same.

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**Who acts:** Alice · **What happens:** tell, be, mean, order, stop, go on · **To what, where:** Alice, same · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curiouser and curiouser (who am I?)» 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 (Alice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:003-alice-ch2-part1-curiouser-and-curiouser.lesson:10
# text = She tells herself "You ought to be ashamed of yourself, a great girl like you", a joke because she really is great, meaning huge, and orders herself: "Stop this moment, I tell you!", but goes on crying all the same.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 003-alice-ch2-part1-curiouser-and-curiouser.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	iobj	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
5	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:aux
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obl
22	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	really	really	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	meaning	mean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
29	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	orders	order	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
33	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	32	obj	_	_
34	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
35	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	_
36	Stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
37	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	38	det	_	_
38	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
42	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	41	iobj	_	_
43	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	41	punct	_	_
44	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	41	punct	_	_
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
48	on	on	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
49	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	47	xcomp	_	_
50	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	52	det:predet	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	obj	_	_
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate, indirect=0, polarity=none, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Alice |  | Alice |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent herself=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | present | Alice |  |  |  |  | great *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **mean** | gerund | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | huge *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **order** | present | Alice *not said here* | Alice |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme |
| 5 | **stop** *in a quote* | infinitive | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  | moment |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Alice |  | Alice |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 7 | **go on** | present | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 8 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | Alice *not said here* | all same |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Topic |

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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.

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**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:003-alice-ch2-part1-curiouser-and-curiouser.lesson:10`.

**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 ×2, R7-rel-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/).

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