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title: She walks off; looking back, she sees them trying to stuff the Dormo… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 2: A Mad… · tree and pragmatics
description: She walks off; looking back, she sees them trying to stuff the Dormouse into the teapot. Who acts: Alice, cups. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 2: A Mad Tea-Party (the treacle-well and the garden at last)» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its depende
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 2: A Mad Tea-Party (the treacle-well and the garden at last), sentence 11

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She walks off; looking back, she sees them trying to stuff the Dormouse into the teapot.

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**Who acts:** Alice, cups · **What happens:** walk off, look back, see, try, stuff · **To what, where:** cups, Dormouse, teapot

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 2: A Mad Tea-Party (the treacle-well and the garden at last)» 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, cups), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:014-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2.lesson:11
# text = She walks off; looking back, she sees them trying to stuff the Dormouse into the teapot.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 014-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	walks	walk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
5	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	xcomp	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	stuff	stuff	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Dormouse	Dormouse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	teapot	teapot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	.	.	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 | **walk off** | present | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **look back** | gerund | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **see** | present | Alice | cups *= cup* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **try** | gerund | cups *= cup* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **stuff** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | cups *= cup* *not said here* | the Dormouse |  | the teapot |  |  | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dormouse=Theme into teapot=Destination |

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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:014-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2.lesson:11`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-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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