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title: Fanning herself, Alice wonders whether she has been changed in the n… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curious… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fanning herself, Alice wonders whether she has been changed in the night into another girl, tests herself with times tables, geography and a poem, and gets them all wrong. Who acts: Alice. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curiouser and curiouser (who am I?)» of the 
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curiouser and curiouser (who am I?), sentence 3

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Fanning herself, Alice wonders whether she has been changed in the night into another girl, tests herself with times tables, geography and a poem, and gets them all wrong.

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**Who acts:** Alice · **What happens:** fan, wonder, change, test, get · **To what, where:** Alice, tables · **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:3
# text = Fanning herself, Alice wonders whether she has been changed in the night into another girl, tests herself with times tables, geography and a poem, and gets them all wrong.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1
1	Fanning	fan	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
2	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	1	obj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	wonders	wonder	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	ccomp	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	tests	test	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	compound	_	_
22	tables	table	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	geography	geography	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=24:conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	det	_	_
33	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	xcomp	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fan** | gerund | Alice *not said here* | Alice |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | present | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **change** | present · perfect · passive |  | Alice |  |  | night | into another girl *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into girl=Result |
| 4 | **test** | present | Alice *not said here* | Alice |  |  |  | with times tables and geography and a poem | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme |
| 5 | **get** | present | Alice *not said here* | tables *= table* |  |  |  | wrong *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |

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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: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): R3-conj-first ×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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