--- title: Alice thinks Mabel lives in a "poky little house" (small and cramped… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curious… · tree and pragmatics description: Alice thinks Mabel lives in a "poky little house" (small and cramped) with next to no toys and "ever so many lessons to learn", and these are only Alice's guesses about another girl; if she is Mabel, she says, she will stay down here, even if people put their heads down and call "Come up again, dear --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/3-alice-ch2-part1-curiouser-and-curiouser/19/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/3-alice-ch2-part1-curiouser-and-curiouser/) / 19 # Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curiouser and curiouser (who am I?), sentence 19 Alice thinks Mabel lives in a "poky little house" (small and cramped) with next to no toys and "ever so many lessons to learn", and these are only Alice's guesses about another girl; if she is Mabel, she says, she will stay down here, even if people put their heads down and call "Come up again, dear!" **Who acts:** Alice, Mabel, these, people · **What happens:** think, live, learn, be, say, stay · **To what, where:** poky little house, guesses, Mabel, heads · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, Mabel, these, people), 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:19 # text = Alice thinks Mabel lives in a "poky little house" (small and cramped) with next to no toys and "ever so many lessons to learn", and these are only Alice's guesses about another girl; if she is Mabel, she says, she will stay down here, even if people put their heads down and call "Come up again, dear!" # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 thinks think VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 Mabel Mabel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 8 poky poky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 13 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 cramped cramped ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 conj _ _ 16 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 18 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 21 det _ _ 21 toys toy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 24 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 26 advmod _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 lessons lesson NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 acl _ _ 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct 31 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 33 these this PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 38 nsubj _ _ 34 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 35 only only ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 36 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nmod:poss _ _ 37 's 's PART POS _ 36 case _ _ 38 guesses guess NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 39 about about ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 41 det _ _ 41 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 42 ; ; PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 43 if if SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 44 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 45 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 cop _ _ 46 Mabel Mabel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 53 advcl _ _ 47 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 48 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 nsubj _ _ 49 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 53 parataxis _ _ 50 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=53:punct 51 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 53 nsubj _ _ 52 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 53 aux _ _ 53 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 54 down down ADV RB _ 55 advmod _ _ 55 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 53 advmod _ _ 56 , , PUNCT , _ 60 punct _ _ 57 even even ADV RB _ 60 advmod _ _ 58 if if SCONJ IN _ 60 mark _ _ 59 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 60 nsubj _ _ 60 put put VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 53 advcl _ _ 61 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 62 nmod:poss _ _ 62 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 60 obj _ _ 63 down down ADV RB _ 60 advmod _ _ 64 and and CCONJ CC _ 65 cc _ _ 65 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 60 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=53:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 66 " " PUNCT `` _ 67 punct _ _ 67 Come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 65 conj _ _ 68 up up ADV RB _ 67 advmod _ _ 69 again again ADV RB _ 67 advmod _ _ 70 , , PUNCT , _ 71 punct _ _ 71 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 67 vocative _ _ 72 ! ! PUNCT . _ 67 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=46:punct 73 " " PUNCT '' _ 46 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Alice | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **live** | present | Mabel | | | a poky little house | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location | | 3 | **learn** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Mabel *not said here* | | | | | | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | these | Alice's guesses | | | | about another girl | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | Alice | Mabel | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Alice | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **stay** | future | Alice | | | here | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **put down** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | people | people's heads | | | | down *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent head=Goal | | 9 | **call** *speech: express* | present | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **come up** *in a quote* | infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | again | dear *vocative* | vn escape-51.1-1 «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:003-alice-ch2-part1-curiouser-and-curiouser.lesson:19`. **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 ×3, 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. 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