--- title: Nine-inch Alice watches a footman with a face like a fish hand a gia… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The foo… · tree and pragmatics description: Nine-inch Alice watches a footman with a face like a fish hand a giant letter to a footman with a face like a frog: the Queen invites the Duchess to play croquet. Who acts: inch Alice, footman, Queen, Duchess. 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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 (inch Alice, footman, Queen, Duchess), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:011-alice-ch6-part1-pig-and-pepper.lesson:0 # text = Nine-inch Alice watches a footman with a face like a fish hand a giant letter to a footman with a face like a frog: the Queen invites the Duchess to play croquet. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 011-alice-ch6-part1-pig-and-pepper.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 3 inch inch NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 watches watch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 footman footman NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 like like ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 hand hand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 acl _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 footman footman NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 like like ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 frog frog NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 invites invite VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 Duchess Duchess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 35 croquet croquet NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **watch** | present | inch Alice | a footman | | | | with a face like a fish | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent footman=Theme | | 2 | **hand** | infinitive | a footman *not said here* | a giant letter | | a footman with a face like a frog | | | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent letter=Theme to footman=Destination | | 3 | **invite** | present | the Queen | the Duchess | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent duchess=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **play** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Duchess *not said here* | croquet | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent croquet=Theme | 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:011-alice-ch6-part1-pig-and-pepper.lesson:0`. **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 ×1, R8-pos-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 2…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/21/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/11-alice-ch6-part1-pig-and-pepper/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/11-alice-ch6-part1-pig-and-pepper/)