--- title: Alice thinks "I wish the creatures wouldn't be so easily offended!";… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice f… · tree and pragmatics description: Alice thinks "I wish the creatures wouldn't be so easily offended!"; back in chapter III she said the same to the Mouse: "you're so easily offended, you know!"; the Caterpillar tells her "You'll get used to it in time." Who acts: Alice, Mouse, Caterpillar. 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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, Mouse, Caterpillar), 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:20 # text = Alice thinks "I wish the creatures wouldn't be so easily offended!"; back in chapter III she said the same to the Mouse: "you're so easily offended, you know!"; the Caterpillar tells her "You'll get used to it in time." # 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 ×5, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 thinks think VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 wish wish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 creatures creature NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 9 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 10 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 13 aux:pass _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advmod 12 easily easily ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 offended offend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 ccomp _ _ 14 ! ! PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 back back ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advmod 18 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 chapter chapter NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 20 III III NUM CD NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card 19 flat _ _ 21 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 obj _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 Mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 28 : : PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 29 " " PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ _ 30 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 31 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 32 so so ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:advmod 33 easily easily ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 offended offended ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 ccomp _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 parataxis _ _ 38 ! ! PUNCT . _ 37 punct _ _ 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ _ 40 ; ; PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 Caterpillar caterpillar NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 43 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 44 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 obj _ _ 45 " " PUNCT `` _ 49 punct _ _ 46 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=49:nsubj 47 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 48 aux _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=49:aux 48 get get AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 49 aux:pass _ _ 49 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 43 ccomp _ _ 50 to to ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 51 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 obl _ _ 52 in in ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 53 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obl _ _ 54 . . PUNCT . _ 34 punct _ _ 55 " " PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: character - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=narrate, indirect=0 | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Alice | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **wish** *in a quote* | present | Alice | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 3 | **not** **offend** *in a quote* | would · passive | | the creatures | | | | easily *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 4 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Alice | the same | the Mouse | chapter | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent same=Topic to mouse=Recipient | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the Mouse *= mouse* | | | | | easily, offended *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **know** *in a quote* | present | the Mouse *= mouse* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the Caterpillar | | Alice | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 8 | **use** *in a quote* | infinitive · passive | | | Mouse | | time | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V» | 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:20`. **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 ×5, 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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