--- title: A footman is a servant who opens doors and carries messages; livery… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The foo… · tree and pragmatics description: A footman is a servant who opens doors and carries messages; livery is the uniform servants of a great house wore; both footmen have powdered hair curled all over their heads. Who acts: footman, servant, livery, uniform servants. 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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 (footman, servant, livery, uniform servants), 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:6 # text = A footman is a servant who opens doors and carries messages; livery is the uniform servants of a great house wore; both footmen have powdered hair curled all over their heads. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 footman footman NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 servant servant NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 opens open VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 doors door NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 11 messages message NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 13 livery livery NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 uniform uniform ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 17 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 parataxis _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 22 wore wear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 25 det _ _ 25 footmen footman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:nsubj 26 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 powdered powder VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 parataxis _ _ 28 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 29 curled curl VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 acl _ _ 30 all all ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 31 over over ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a footman | a servant | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **open** | present | a servant | doors | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | | 3 | **carry** | present | a servant *not said here* | messages | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | present | livery | the uniform servants | | | | of a great house | tree rules | | 5 | **wear** | past | the uniform servants *not said here* | | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **powder** | present · perfect | | hair | | | | | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | | 7 | **curl** | participle | | hair *not said here* | | messages's heads | | | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over head=Destination | 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. 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