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title: The Frog-Footman repeats it "only changing the order of the words a… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The foo… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Frog-Footman repeats it "only changing the order of the words a little": "From the Queen. Who acts: Frog Footman. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The footmen and the Duchess's kitchen» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and th
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The footmen and the Duchess's kitchen, sentence 10

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The Frog-Footman repeats it "only changing the order of the words a little": "From the Queen.

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**Who acts:** Frog Footman · **What happens:** repeat, change, order · **To what, where:** croquet, order, words

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The footmen and the Duchess's kitchen» 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 (Frog Footman), 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:10
# text = The Frog-Footman repeats it "only changing the order of the words a little": "From the Queen.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Frog	frog	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Footman	footman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
5	repeats	repeat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	changing	change	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:amod
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
20	From	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **repeat** | present | the Frog Footman | croquet |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **change** *in a quote* | gerund | the Frog Footman *not said here* | the order of the words |  |  |  | a little *obl* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Patient |
| 3 | **order** *in a quote* |  |  | the words |  |  |  |  | nom order «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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:011-alice-ch6-part1-pig-and-pepper.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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