--- title: Alice soon talks with the animals "as if she had known them all her… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The dr… · tree and pragmatics description: Alice soon talks with the animals "as if she had known them all her life", and argues with the Lory, who only says "I am older than you, and must know better", but refuses to tell its age, so the argument can go no further. Who acts: Alice, party, Lory, age. 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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, party, Lory, age), 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:7 # text = Alice soon talks with the animals "as if she had known them all her life", and argues with the Lory, who only says "I am older than you, and must know better", but refuses to tell its age, so the argument can go no further. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 3 advmod _ _ 3 talks talk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 8 as as SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 9 if if SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 13 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 16 det _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:PronType=Tot 15 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl:unmarked _ _ 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 argues argue VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 Lory lory PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 26 only only ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 28 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 31 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 27 ccomp _ _ 32 than than ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 obl _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 38 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 37 ccomp _ _ 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 but but CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 refuses refuse VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 43 to to PART TO _ 44 mark _ _ 44 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 xcomp _ _ 45 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ _ 47 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 48 so so ADV RB _ 52 advmod _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 argument argument NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nsubj _ _ 51 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 52 aux _ _ 52 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 ccomp _ _ 53 no no ADV RB _ 54 advmod _ _ 54 further far ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 52 advmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=52:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 55 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **talk** | present | Alice | | | | | with the animals; soon *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with animal=Co-Agent | | 2 | **know** *in a quote* | past · perfect | party | Alice | | | | party's life *obl:unmarked* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | | 3 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | Alice *not said here* | | | | | with the Lory | vn chit\_chat-37.6-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with lory=Co-Agent | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Lory | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Alice | | | | | than you; old *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **know** *in a quote* | must | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **refuse** | present | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 8 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | life's age | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 9 | **go** | can | the argument | | | | | far *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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:005-alice-ch3-part1-a-caucus-race.lesson:7`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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 III, part…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/5-alice-ch3-part1-a-caucus-race/6/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/5-alice-ch3-part1-a-caucus-race/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/5-alice-ch3-part1-a-caucus-race/)