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title: The garden has a large rose-tree with white roses, and three gardene… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 1: The Q… · tree and pragmatics
description: The garden has a large rose-tree with white roses, and three gardeners are «busily painting them red». Who acts: garden, three gardeners. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 1: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (painting the roses red)» of the books course of Mova's primary sc
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 1: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (painting the roses red), sentence 12

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The garden has a large rose-tree with white roses, and three gardeners are «busily painting them red».

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**Who acts:** garden, three gardeners · **What happens:** have, paint · **To what, where:** large rose tree, roses

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 1: The Queen's Croquet-Ground (painting the roses red)» 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 (garden, three gardeners), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:015-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-1.lesson:12
# text = The garden has a large rose-tree with white roses, and three gardeners are «busily painting them red».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 015-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-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 ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
8	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	gardeners	gardener	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
18	busily	busily	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
19	painting	paint	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	conj	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
22	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **have** | present | the garden | a large rose tree |  |  |  | with white roses | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient |
| 2 | **paint** *in a quote* | present · progressive | three gardeners | roses *= rose* |  |  |  | busily, red *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent they=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:015-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-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 ×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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