--- title: She says "I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir, because I'm not m… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice f… · tree and pragmatics description: She says "I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir, because I'm not myself, you see"; "not myself" can mean feeling strange, and Alice also means it truly: she has changed. Who acts: Alice, you, myself. 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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, you, myself), 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:7 # text = She says "I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir, because I'm not myself, you see"; "not myself" can mean feeling strange, and Alice also means it truly: she has changed. # 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:":_ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 5 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 explain explain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:advcl 8 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 7 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 afraid afraid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 sir sir NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 vocative _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 because because SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 17 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 7 advcl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:advmod 28 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 31 nsubj _ _ 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 30 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ _ 32 feeling feel VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 31 xcomp _ _ 33 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 xcomp _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 37 also also ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 truly truly ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 41 : : PUNCT : _ 44 punct _ _ 42 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 43 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 changed change VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 parataxis _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Alice | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **explain** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | can | Alice | Alice | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Topic | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Alice | | | | | sir *vocative*; afraid *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | Alice | Alice | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **see** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **mean** | can | myself | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **feel** *not said to happen* | gerund | myself *not said here* | | | | | strange *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 8 | **mean** | present | Alice | least | | | | truly *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 9 | **change** | present · perfect | Alice | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:7`. **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 ×1, R8-pos-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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