--- title: She'll get me executed, as sure as ferrets are ferrets!"; "executed"… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 1: Stuck i… · tree and pragmatics description: She'll get me executed, as sure as ferrets are ferrets!"; "executed" means put to death, and ferrets are small hunting animals that chase rabbits. Who acts: situation, me, ferrets, small hunting animals. 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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 (situation, me, ferrets, small hunting animals), 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:7 # text = She'll get me executed, as sure as ferrets are ferrets!"; "executed" means put to death, and ferrets are small hunting animals that chase rabbits. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 executed execute VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 xcomp _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 as as ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 advcl _ _ 9 as as SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 10 ferrets ferret NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 11 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 ferrets ferret NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:obl 13 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 17 executed execute VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 nsubj _ _ 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 19 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 20 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 xcomp _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 25 ferrets ferret NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 26 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 27 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 28 hunting hunting NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 30 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 31 chase chase VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ _ 32 rabbits rabbit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | future | situation | me | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **execute** | participle | me *not said here* | | | | | | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | ferrets | ferrets | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **execute** | participle | | | | | | | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **mean** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **put** *not said to happen, in a quote* | participle | | | | | | to death | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | ferrets | small hunting animals | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **chase** *in a quote* | present | small hunting animals | rabbits | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=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:007-alice-ch4-part1-the-rabbits-house.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, R7-rel-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…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/7-alice-ch4-part1-the-rabbits-house/6/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/7-alice-ch4-part1-the-rabbits-house/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/7-alice-ch4-part1-the-rabbits-house/)