--- title: Father William's answers are silly: he no longer fears hurting his b… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice f… · tree and pragmatics description: Father William's answers are silly: he no longer fears hurting his brain because he is "perfectly sure I have none", and he tries to sell his son an ointment at "one shilling the box" (a shilling was an old British coin). Who acts: answers, father, old man, shilling. 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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 (answers, father, old man, shilling), 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:14 # text = Father William's answers are silly: he no longer fears hurting his brain because he is "perfectly sure I have none", and he tries to sell his son an ointment at "one shilling the box" (a shilling was an old British coin). # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Father Father PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 2 William William PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 4 answers answer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 silly silly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 9 no no ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advmod 10 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 11 advmod _ _ 11 fears fear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 12 hurting hurt VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 xcomp _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 because because SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 19 perfectly perfectly ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 advcl _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 ccomp _ _ 23 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 22 obj _ _ 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 tries try VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 sell sell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 iobj _ _ 33 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 ointment ointment NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 35 at at ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 " " PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ _ 37 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 38 nummod _ _ 38 shilling shilling NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=38:nmod 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ _ 42 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 49 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=44:punct 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 shilling shilling NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nsubj _ _ 45 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 49 cop _ _ 46 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 47 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 48 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 coin coin NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ _ 50 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 49 punct _ _ 51 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Father's answers | | | | | silly *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **fear** | present | father | | | | | long *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **hurt** | gerund | father *not said here* | father's brain | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brain=Patient | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | father | | | | | perfectly, sure *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **have** *in a quote* | present | the old man *= man* | none | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient | | 6 | **try** | present | father | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **sell** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | father *not said here* | a ointment | father's son | one shilling | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent son=Recipient ointment=Theme at shilling=Asset | | 8 | **is a** | past | a shilling | a old British coin | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **answer** | | Father | | | | | | nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=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: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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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