--- title: She thinks "It was much pleasanter at home", but also "it's rather c… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 1: Stuck i… · tree and pragmatics description: She thinks "It was much pleasanter at home", but also "it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life!", and says "There ought to be a book written about me". Who acts: Alice, head, you, book. 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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, head, you, book), 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:16 # text = She thinks "It was much pleasanter at home", but also "it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life!", and says "There ought to be a book written about me". # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 thinks think VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 4 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 much much ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 pleasanter pleasant ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 8 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 11 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 13 also also ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 16 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 17 rather rather ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 curious curious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 parataxis _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 23 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 24 det _ _ 24 sort sort NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 27 ! ! PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=7:conj 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ _ 33 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 38 expl _ _ 34 ought ought AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:aux 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:mark 36 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:cop|HaikuPos=AUX:VB:VerbForm=Inf 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:ccomp 39 written write VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 acl _ _ 40 about about ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 39 obl _ _ 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed act=narrate, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Alice | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | head | | | home | | pleasant *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | head | | | | | curious *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **know** *in a quote* | present | you | this sort of life | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer sort=Stimulus | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **be** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | a book | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **write** *in a quote* | participle | | a book *not said here* | | | | about Alice | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about i=Topic | | 8 | **sort** *in a quote* | | | life | | | | | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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: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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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. 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