--- title: The Caterpillar and Alice stare at each other in silence until it sl… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice f… · tree and pragmatics description: The Caterpillar and Alice stare at each other in silence until it slowly asks, "Who are you?", and Alice, after so many changes of size, honestly does not know. Who acts: Caterpillar, silence, you, Alice. 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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 (Caterpillar, silence, you, Alice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:009-alice-ch5-part1-advice-from-a-caterpillar.lesson:0 # text = The Caterpillar and Alice stare at each other in silence until it slowly asks, "Who are you?", and Alice, after so many changes of size, honestly does not know. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 009-alice-ch5-part1-advice-from-a-caterpillar.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Caterpillar caterpillar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc 4 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 5 stare stare VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 5 nmod _ _ 8 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 fixed _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 silence silence NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 until until SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 17 Who who PRON WP PronType=Int 14 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:advcl 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 20 ? ? PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 after after ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 so so ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 changes change NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:conj 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 honestly honestly ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 34 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 36 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stare** | present | the Caterpillar and Alice | | | | | in silence; at each | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at each=Theme | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | silence | | | | | slowly *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **know** | present · do-support | Alice | | | | after many changes of size | honestly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **change** | | size | | | | | | nom change «event intransitive»: of=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:009-alice-ch5-part1-advice-from-a-caterpillar.lesson:0`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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