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title: She fears she has become Mabel, a girl she thinks knows very little,… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curious… · tree and pragmatics
description: She fears she has become Mabel, a girl she thinks knows very little, and ends up crying because she is so tired of being all alone: funny, but lonely and sad underneath. Who acts: Alice. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curiouser and curiouser (who am I?)» of the bo
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curiouser and curiouser (who am I?), sentence 4

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She fears she has become Mabel, a girl she thinks knows very little, and ends up crying because she is so tired of being all alone: funny, but lonely and sad underneath.

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**Who acts:** Alice · **What happens:** fear, become, think, know, end up, cry · **To what, where:** girl, little · **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:4
# text = She fears she has become Mabel, a girl she thinks knows very little, and ends up crying because she is so tired of being all alone: funny, but lonely and sad underneath.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fears	fear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	_
6	Mabel	Mabel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	xcomp	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	ends	end	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	xcomp	_	_
20	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	advcl	_	_
25	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:mark|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
26	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	cop	_	_
27	all	all	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:xcomp
29	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
30	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	conj	_	_
36	underneath	underneath	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fear** | present | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **become** | present · perfect | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Alice | a girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent girl=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 4 | **know** | present |  | little |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer little=Stimulus |
| 5 | **end up** | present | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is** | present | Alice |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | all *property* | tree rules |

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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:4`.

**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, 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/).

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