--- title: The Duck and the Lory keep interrupting, and when the Dodo suggests… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The dr… · tree and pragmatics description: The Duck and the Lory keep interrupting, and when the Dodo suggests something in very long words, the Eaglet tells it to "Speak English!" Who acts: Duck, Dodo, Eaglet. 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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 (Duck, Dodo, Eaglet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:005-alice-ch3-part1-a-caucus-race.lesson:3 # text = The Duck and the Lory keep interrupting, and when the Dodo suggests something in very long words, the Eaglet tells it to "Speak English!" # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 005-alice-ch3-part1-a-caucus-race.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×4 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Duck Duck PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Lory lory PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 interrupting interrupt VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 xcomp _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 Dodo Dodo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 13 suggests suggest VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 14 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 13 obj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 very very ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Eaglet eaglet PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 22 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 26 Speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 27 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 28 ! ! PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | present | the Duck and the Lory | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **interrupt** | gerund | the Duck and the Lory *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | present | the Dodo | something | | long words | | | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the Eaglet | | Dodo | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent it=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **speak** *speech: other* *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Eaglet *not said here* | English | | | | | tree rules | 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. 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