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title: «Well in» is a pun: the sisters are in the well, and «well in» also… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 2: A Mad… · tree and pragmatics
description: «Well in» is a pun: the sisters are in the well, and «well in» also means deep inside. Who acts: «. 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 dependency tree and
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter VII, part 2: A Mad Tea-Party (the treacle-well and the garden at last), sentence 24

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«Well in» is a pun: the sisters are in the well, and «well in» also means deep inside.

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**Who acts:** « · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** pun

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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 («), 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:24
# text = «Well in» is a pun: the sisters are in the well, and «well in» also means deep inside.
# 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 ×3
1	«	«	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	Well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	»	»	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	pun	pun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:det
14	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	«	«	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	»	»	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	also	also	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
23	deep	deep	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
24	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is a** | present | « in » | a pun and the sisters |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | « in » *not said here* |  |  |  |  | inside, mean, well *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:014-alice-a-mad-tea-party-2.lesson:24`.

**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 ×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/).

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