--- title: The poem she tries to recite comes out as "How doth the little croco… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curious… · tree and pragmatics description: The poem she tries to recite comes out as "How doth the little crocodile", about a crocodile that smiles as it welcomes little fishes into its jaws; "How doth" is old English for "how does". Who acts: poem, crocodile, doth. 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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 (poem, crocodile, doth), 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:18 # text = The poem she tries to recite comes out as "How doth the little crocodile", about a crocodile that smiles as it welcomes little fishes into its jaws; "How doth" is old English for "how does". # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 poem poem NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 tries try VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 recite recite VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 out out ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 as as ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 11 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 advmod _ _ 12 doth doth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 obl _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 crocodile crocodile NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 about about ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 crocodile crocodile NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 21 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 22 smiles smile VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 23 as as SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 welcomes welcome VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 26 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 fishes fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 into into ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 jaws jaw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ _ 33 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 34 advmod _ _ 34 doth doth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 nsubj _ _ 35 " " PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=38:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 36 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 37 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 39 for for ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 " " PUNCT `` _ 42 punct _ _ 41 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 42 advmod _ _ 42 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 obl _ _ 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 42 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=42:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:":_ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **try** | present | poem | the poem *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **recite** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | poem *not said here* | | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **come out** | present | the poem | | | | | as doth and the little crocodile and a crocodile | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **smile** | present | a crocodile | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **welcome** | present | crocodile | little fishes | | crocodile's jaws | | | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme | | 6 | **is a** | present | doth | old English | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **do** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «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:003-alice-ch2-part1-curiouser-and-curiouser.lesson:18`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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 II, part…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/3-alice-ch2-part1-curiouser-and-curiouser/17/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/3-alice-ch2-part1-curiouser-and-curiouser/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/3-alice-ch2-part1-curiouser-and-curiouser/)