--- title: The March Hare and the Hatter are squashed into one corner, leaning… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 1: A Mad… · tree and pragmatics description: The March Hare and the Hatter are squashed into one corner, leaning their elbows on a sleeping Dormouse as if it were a cushion. Who acts: Dormouse. 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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 (Dormouse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:013-alice-a-mad-tea-party-1.lesson:1 # text = The March Hare and the Hatter are squashed into one corner, leaning their elbows on a sleeping Dormouse as if it were a cushion. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 013-alice-a-mad-tea-party-1.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:det 2 March March PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 Hare Hare PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Hatter Hatter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 squashed squash VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 9 into into ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 corner corner NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 leaning lean VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 14 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 elbows elbow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 sleeping sleeping ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 Dormouse Dormouse PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 20 as as SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 21 if if SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 cushion cushion NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 advcl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **squash** | present · passive | | March | | one corner | | | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into corner=Destination | | 2 | **lean** | gerund | | their elbows | | a sleeping Dormouse | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent elbow=Theme on dormouse=Destination | | 3 | **is a** | past | Dormouse | a cushion | | | | | tree rules | 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:013-alice-a-mad-tea-party-1.lesson:1`. **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 ×2, 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 VII, part…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/13-alice-a-mad-tea-party-1/0/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/13-alice-a-mad-tea-party-1/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/13-alice-a-mad-tea-party-1/)