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title: For the Dormouse, «I breathe when I sleep» and «I sleep when I breat… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 1: A Mad… · tree and pragmatics
description: For the Dormouse, «I breathe when I sleep» and «I sleep when I breathe» really are the same, because he is nearly always asleep. Who acts: Alice, hair. 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 prima
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 1: A Mad Tea-Party (no room, riddles and Time), sentence 19

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For the Dormouse, «I breathe when I sleep» and «I sleep when I breathe» really are the same, because he is nearly always asleep.

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**Who acts:** Alice, hair · **What happens:** breathe, sleep, be

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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 (Alice, hair), 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:19
# text = For the Dormouse, «I breathe when I sleep» and «I sleep when I breathe» really are the same, because he is nearly always asleep.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Dormouse	Dormouse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	breathe	breathe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	nsubj	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	sleep	sleep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	sleep	sleep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	breathe	breathe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
19	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
20	really	really	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	30	advmod	_	_
30	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	advcl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	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 | **breathe** *in a quote* | present | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sleep** *in a quote* | present | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sleep** *in a quote* | present | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **breathe** *in a quote* | present | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for the Dormouse; same *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | present | hair |  |  |  |  | always, asleep, nearly *property* | tree rules |

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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:19`.

**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, 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/).

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