--- title: Alice cries "Curiouser and curiouser!", which is not good English (t… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curious… · tree and pragmatics description: Alice cries "Curiouser and curiouser!", which is not good English (the right form is "more and more curious"), because she is so surprised she forgets how to speak properly. Who acts: Alice, Curiouser, right form. 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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 (Alice, Curiouser, right form), 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:5 # text = Alice cries "Curiouser and curiouser!", which is not good English (the right form is "more and more curious"), because she is so surprised she forgets how to speak properly. # 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 1 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 cries cry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 4 Curiouser Curiouser PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 curiouser curious ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 conj _ _ 7 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 13 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 15 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 form form NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 21 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 24 advmod _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 21 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:advmod 24 curious curious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 parataxis _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 26 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 because because SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 29 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 31 so so ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 surprised surprised ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 advcl _ _ 33 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 forgets forget VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:advcl 35 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 37 advmod _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 38 properly properly ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | Alice | Curiouser and good English | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curiouser=Topic | | 2 | **not** **is a** | present | Curiouser and good English | good English | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the right form | | | | | curious *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | Alice | | | | | surprised *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **forget** | present | Alice | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | | | | | properly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «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:5`. **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. **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…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/3-alice-ch2-part1-curiouser-and-curiouser/4/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/3-alice-ch2-part1-curiouser-and-curiouser/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/3-alice-ch2-part1-curiouser-and-curiouser/)