--- title: On 4 July 1862 he told the story on a rowing-boat trip on the river… — Alice's Victorian world: tea, croquet, pocket wa… · tree and pragmatics description: On 4 July 1862 he told the story on a rowing-boat trip on the river near Oxford to three sisters, Lorina, Alice and Edith Liddell, and Alice asked him to write it down; the book, with pictures by John Tenniel, came out in 1865. Who acts: Carroll, Alice, book. 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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 (Carroll, Alice, book), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:081-alice-s-victorian-world-tea-croquet-pocket-watches-shillings-and-chimney-sweeps.lesson:7 # text = On 4 July 1862 he told the story on a rowing-boat trip on the river near Oxford to three sisters, Lorina, Alice and Edith Liddell, and Alice asked him to write it down; the book, with pictures by John Tenniel, came out in 1865. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 081-alice-s-victorian-world-tea-croquet-pocket-watches-shillings-and-chimney-sweeps.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 On on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 July July PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 1862 1862 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nmod:unmarked _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 11 rowing rowing NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ _ 13 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 trip trip NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 near near ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 Oxford Oxford PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 sisters sister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 Lorina Lorina PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 appos _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 Edith Edith PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=26:conj 29 Liddell Liddell PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 flat _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:parataxis 34 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 iobj _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 write write VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 down down ADP RP _ 36 compound:prt _ _ 39 ; ; PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nsubj _ _ 42 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 43 with with ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 pictures picture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=41:conj 45 by by ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 John John PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 nmod _ _ 47 Tenniel Tenniel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 flat _ _ 48 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 49 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 50 out out ADV RB _ 49 advmod _ _ 51 in in ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 52 1865 1865 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 49 obl _ _ 53 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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* | past | Carroll | the story | three sisters | a boat trip on the river near Oxford | july | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Topic to sister=Recipient | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Alice | | Carroll | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **write down** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | story | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **come out** | past | the book with pictures by John | | | 1865 | | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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:history:081-alice-s-victorian-world-tea-croquet-pocket-watches-shillings-and-chimney-sweeps.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): R3-conj-first ×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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