--- title: The Dormouse's three sisters are Elsie, Lacie and Tillie; they live… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 2: A Mad… · tree and pragmatics description: The Dormouse's three sisters are Elsie, Lacie and Tillie; they live at the bottom of a well, on treacle; Alice asks what they lived on because she «always took a great interest in questions of eating and drinking»; treacle is thick sweet syrup, like golden syrup or molasses. 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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 (three sisters, sisters, Alice, questions), 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:18 # text = The Dormouse's three sisters are Elsie, Lacie and Tillie; they live at the bottom of a well, on treacle; Alice asks what they lived on because she «always took a great interest in questions of eating and drinking»; treacle is thick sweet syrup, like golden syrup or molasses. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Dormouse Dormouse PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 sisters sister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 Elsie Elsie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 parataxis _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 Lacie Lacie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 Tillie Tillie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:det 20 well well NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 treacle treacle NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 27 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 26 obj _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 30 on on ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 because because SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 32 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 33 « « PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=35:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 34 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 35 advmod _ _ 35 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 interest interest NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nmod _ _ 41 of of SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 42 eating eat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 40 acl _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 drinking drinking NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=42:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 45 » » NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 obj _ _ 46 ; ; PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 47 treacle treacle NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nsubj _ _ 48 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 51 cop _ _ 49 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 50 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 51 syrup syrup NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 52 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 53 like like ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 54 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 55 amod _ _ 55 syrup syrup NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=51:appos 56 or or CCONJ CC _ 57 cc _ _ 57 molasses molasses NOUN NNS Number=Plur 55 conj _ _ 58 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the Dormouse's three sisters | Elsie and Lacie and Tillie | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **live** | present | sisters *= sister* | | | the bottom a well | | of treacle | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at bottom=Location | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Alice | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient | | 4 | **live on** | past | sisters *= sister* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **take** *in a quote* | past | Alice | a great interest | | questions | | always *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent interest=Value in question=Location | | 6 | **eat** *in a quote* | gerund | questions *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is a** | present | treacle | thick sweet syrup | | | | like golden syrup or molasses | 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:014-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2.lesson:18`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/14-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2/16/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/14-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/14-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2/)