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title: Alice took a jar labelled "ORANGE MARMALADE" from a shelf; it was em… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1: Down the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Alice took a jar labelled "ORANGE MARMALADE" from a shelf; it was empty, and she put it into a cupboard because she did not want to kill somebody underneath by dropping it. Who acts: Alice, jar. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1: Down the Rabbit-Hole (the fall)» of the
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1: Down the Rabbit-Hole (the fall), sentence 14

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Alice took a jar labelled "ORANGE MARMALADE" from a shelf; it was empty, and she put it into a cupboard because she did not want to kill somebody underneath by dropping it.

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**Who acts:** Alice, jar · **What happens:** take, label, be, put, not want, kill · **To what, where:** jar, shelf, ORANGE MARMALADE, cupboard, somebody

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1: Down the Rabbit-Hole (the fall)» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alice, jar), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:001-alice-ch1-part1-down-the-rabbit-hole.lesson:14
# text = Alice took a jar labelled "ORANGE MARMALADE" from a shelf; it was empty, and she put it into a cupboard because she did not want to kill somebody underneath by dropping it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 001-alice-ch1-part1-down-the-rabbit-hole.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): R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj
5	labelled	label	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
7	ORANGE	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	MARMALADE	marmalade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obj
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	shelf	shelf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	somebody	somebody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	31	obj	_	_
33	underneath	underneath	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
34	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
35	dropping	drop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Alice | a jar |  | a shelf |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent jar=Theme from shelf=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **label** | participle | a jar *not said here* | ORANGE MARMALADE |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | jar |  |  |  |  | empty *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **put** | past | Alice | jar |  | a cupboard |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |
| 5 | **not** **want** | past · do-support | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 6 | **kill** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | somebody |  |  |  | underneath *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent somebody=Theme |
| 7 | **drop** | gerund | Alice *not said here* | jar |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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.

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**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:001-alice-ch1-part1-down-the-rabbit-hole.lesson:14`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×3. **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/).

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