--- title: She drinks because "I know something interesting is sure to happen"… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 1: Stuck i… · tree and pragmatics description: She drinks because "I know something interesting is sure to happen" "whenever I eat or drink anything". Who acts: Alice, something. 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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, something), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:007-alice-ch4-part1-the-rabbits-house.lesson:14 # text = She drinks because "I know something interesting is sure to happen" "whenever I eat or drink anything". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 007-alice-ch4-part1-the-rabbits-house.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): R8-pos-agree ×2 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 drinks drink VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 because because SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 7 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 10 nsubj _ _ 8 interesting interesting ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 ccomp _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 15 whenever whenever SCONJ WRB _ 17 mark _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 drink drink VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 20 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 19 obj _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drink** | present | Alice | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **know** *in a quote* | present | Alice | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | something | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **happen** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | something *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **eat** *in a quote* | present | Alice | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **drink** *in a quote* | present | Alice *not said here* | anything | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient | 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:007-alice-ch4-part1-the-rabbits-house.lesson:14`. **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): R8-pos-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 IV, part…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/7-alice-ch4-part1-the-rabbits-house/13/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/7-alice-ch4-part1-the-rabbits-house/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/7-alice-ch4-part1-the-rabbits-house/)