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title: At the table sit the March Hare, the Hatter and the Dormouse, who is… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 1: A Mad… · tree and pragmatics
description: At the table sit the March Hare, the Hatter and the Dormouse, who is fast asleep and used as a cushion. Who acts: March Hare, Dormouse. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 1: A Mad Tea-Party (no room, riddles and Time)» of the books course of Mova's primary school with i
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 1: A Mad Tea-Party (no room, riddles and Time), sentence 12

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At the table sit the March Hare, the Hatter and the Dormouse, who is fast asleep and used as a cushion.

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**Who acts:** March Hare, Dormouse · **What happens:** sit, be, use · **To what, where:** table

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 1: A Mad Tea-Party (no room, riddles and Time)» 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 (March Hare, 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:12
# text = At the table sit the March Hare, the Hatter and the Dormouse, who is fast asleep and used as 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	sit	sit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Hare	Hare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Hatter	Hatter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:appos
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Dormouse	Dormouse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	fast	fast	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:amod
18	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	acl:relcl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	cushion	cushion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | infinitive | the March Hare and the Hatter and the Dormouse |  |  | the table |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | the Dormouse |  |  |  |  | asleep, fast *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **use** | participle | the Dormouse *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as a cushion | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:013-alice-a-mad-tea-party-1.lesson:12`.

**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): R7-rel-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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