--- title: Alice goes on «I wouldn't say anything about it, even if I fell off… — Off with her head and the finest house on the ri… · tree and pragmatics description: Alice goes on «I wouldn't say anything about it, even if I fell off the top of the house!» and Carroll adds «(Which was very likely true.)» — a dark joke: after such a fall she wouldn't be able to say anything. Who acts: Alice, Carroll. 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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, Carroll), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:054-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad.lesson:10 # text = Alice goes on «I wouldn't say anything about it, even if I fell off the top of the house!» and Carroll adds «(Which was very likely true.)» — a dark joke: after such a fall she wouldn't be able to say anything. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 054-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 on on ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 6 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis 9 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 8 obj _ _ 10 about about ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 13 even even ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 14 if if SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 fell fell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 17 off off ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 ! ! PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 24 » » PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 Carroll Carroll PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 adds add VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 28 « « PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 29 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 34 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct 30 Which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 nsubj _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 very very ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 likely likely ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 parataxis _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 36 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 2 punct _ _ 37 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 38 — - PUNCT : _ 41 punct _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 42 : : PUNCT : _ 51 punct _ _ 43 after after ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 44 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 46 det:predet _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 fall fall NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 obl _ _ 47 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 51 nsubj _ _ 48 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 51 aux _ _ 49 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 51 advmod _ _ 50 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 51 cop _ _ 51 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=41:acl:relcl 52 to to PART TO _ 53 mark _ _ 53 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 51 xcomp _ _ 54 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 53 obj _ _ 55 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go on** | present | Alice | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | would | Alice | anything | | | | about fall | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic | | 3 | **fell off** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | Alice | the top of the house | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | Carroll | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | past | | | | | | likely *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **is** | would | Alice | | | | after such fall | able *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | anything | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic | 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:language:054-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad.lesson:10`. **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 ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Off with her head and the finest house…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/54-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad/9/) - next →: [Off with her head and the finest house…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/54-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/54-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad/)