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title: The Fish-Footman brings a letter "nearly as large as himself": "For… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The foo… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Fish-Footman brings a letter "nearly as large as himself": "For the Duchess. Who acts: Fish 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 the pragmatics 
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The footmen and the Duchess's kitchen, sentence 8

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The Fish-Footman brings a letter "nearly as large as himself": "For the Duchess.

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**Who acts:** Fish Footman · **What happens:** bring · **To what, where:** letter

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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 (Fish 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:8
# text = The Fish-Footman brings a letter "nearly as large as himself": "For the Duchess.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Fish	Fish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Footman	footman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	brings	bring	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	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
9	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	as	as	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:acl
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obl	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
17	For	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Duchess	duchess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
20	.	.	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 | **bring** | present | the Fish Footman | a letter |  |  |  | for the Duchess | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent letter=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:011-alice-ch6-part1-pig-and-pepper.lesson:8`.

**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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