--- title: An old Crab tells her daughter "never to lose your temper", and the… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes… · tree and pragmatics description: An old Crab tells her daughter "never to lose your temper", and the daughter snaps "Hold your tongue, Ma! Who acts: old Crab, daughter, your. 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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 (old Crab, daughter, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:006-alice-ch3-part2-a-long-tale.lesson:16 # text = An old Crab tells her daughter "never to lose your temper", and the daughter snaps "Hold your tongue, Ma! # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 006-alice-ch3-part2-a-long-tale.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 Crab crab NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 8 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 lose lose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 11 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 temper temper NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 snaps snap VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 20 Hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 parataxis _ _ 21 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 Ma ma PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 vocative _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 25 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | a old Crab | | Crab's daughter | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **lose** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | a old Crab *not said here* | your temper | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temper=Eventuality | | 3 | **snap** | present | the daughter | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **hold** *in a quote* | infinitive | | your tongue | | | | Ma *vocative* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme | | 5 | **temper** *in a quote* | | your | | | | | | nom temper «feeling transitive»: poss=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:006-alice-ch3-part2-a-long-tale.lesson:16`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2. **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…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/6-alice-ch3-part2-a-long-tale/15/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/6-alice-ch3-part2-a-long-tale/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/6-alice-ch3-part2-a-long-tale/)