--- title: Alice answers "I—I hardly know, sir, just at present—at least I know… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice f… · tree and pragmatics description: Alice answers "I—I hardly know, sir, just at present—at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then." Who acts: 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 (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:6 # text = Alice answers "I—I hardly know, sir, just at present—at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then." # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 answers answer VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 reparandum _ _ 5 — - PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 10 sir sir NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 vocative _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 just just ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 13 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 present present NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 15 — - PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 least least ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 19 obl _ _ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 20 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 19 ccomp _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 23 when when SCONJ WRB _ 25 mark _ _ 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 26 up up ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 27 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 28 det _ _ 28 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl:unmarked _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 but but CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 33 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 34 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 35 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 37 aux _ _ 36 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 37 aux:pass _ _ 37 changed change VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 ccomp _ _ 38 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl:unmarked _ _ 40 since since ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 37 obl _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | Alice | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **know** *in a quote* | present | Alice | | | present | | sir *vocative*; hardly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **know** *in a quote* | present | Alice | | | least | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | Alice | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **get up** *in a quote* | past | Alice | | | | morning | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | Alice | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 7 | **change** *in a quote* | must · perfect · passive | | Alice | | | time | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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:6`. **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. **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 V, part 1…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/9-alice-ch5-part1-advice-from-a-caterpillar/5/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/9-alice-ch5-part1-advice-from-a-caterpillar/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/9-alice-ch5-part1-advice-from-a-caterpillar/)