--- title: Alice tells it that one day it will turn into a chrysalis (the hard… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice f… · tree and pragmatics description: Alice tells it that one day it will turn into a chrysalis (the hard case a caterpillar rests in) and then into a butterfly, which is true of real caterpillars. Who acts: Alice, size, caterpillar, butterfly. 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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, size, caterpillar, butterfly), 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:10 # text = Alice tells it that one day it will turn into a chrysalis (the hard case a caterpillar rests in) and then into a butterfly, which is true of real caterpillars. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 5 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl:unmarked _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:advcl 10 into into ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 chrysalis chrysalis NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 case case NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:det 18 caterpillar caterpillar NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 rests rest VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 26 advmod _ _ 24 into into ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 butterfly butterfly NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 acl:relcl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 caterpillars caterpillar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Alice | | size | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent it=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **turn** | future | size | | | a chrysalis and a butterfly | day | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into chrysalis=Trajectory | | 3 | **rest in** | present | a caterpillar | the hard case *not said here* | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location case=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | a butterfly | | | | | of real caterpillars; true *property* | tree rules | 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:10`. **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): R5-strong ×1, 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. 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