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title: Alice thinks one is a footman "because he was in livery: otherwise,… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The foo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Alice thinks one is a footman "because he was in livery: otherwise, judging by his face only, she would have called him a fish"; the other has "a round face, and large eyes like a frog". Who acts: Alice, one, footman, other. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The foot
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The footmen and the Duchess's kitchen, sentence 7

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Alice thinks one is a footman "because he was in livery: otherwise, judging by his face only, she would have called him a fish"; the other has "a round face, and large eyes like a frog".

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**Who acts:** Alice, one, footman, other · **What happens:** think, be, judge, call, have · **To what, where:** footman, livery, round face · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Alice, one, footman, other), 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:7
# text = Alice thinks one is a footman "because he was in livery: otherwise, judging by his face only, she would have called him a fish"; the other has "a round face, and large eyes like a frog".
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	footman	footman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
8	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	livery	livery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	advcl	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	judging	judge	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	advcl	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	only	only	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux	_	_
25	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	xcomp	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	nsubj	_	_
33	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
34	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	conj	_	_
42	like	like	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
45	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	37	punct	_	_
46	.	.	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 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | one | a footman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | past | footman |  |  | livery |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **judge** *in a quote* | gerund | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by footman's face; otherwise *property* | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **call** *in a quote* | would · perfect | Alice |  | footman |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 6 | **have** | present | the other | a round face and large eyes like a frog |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=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:7`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-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/).

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