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title: «Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it,» says the Duches… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Moc… · tree and pragmatics
description: «Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it,» says the Duchess; a moral is the lesson a story teaches. Who acts: Everything, you, Duchess, moral. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Mock Turtle's Story (the Duchess and her morals)» of the books course of Mov
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Mock Turtle's Story (the Duchess and her morals), sentence 14

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«Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it,» says the Duchess; a moral is the lesson a story teaches.

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**Who acts:** Everything, you, Duchess, moral, story · **What happens:** get, find, say, be, teach · **To what, where:** moral, lesson · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Mock Turtle's Story (the Duchess and her morals)» 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 (Everything, you, Duchess, moral), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:017-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-1.lesson:14
# text = «Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it,» says the Duchess; a moral is the lesson a story teaches.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 017-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-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 ×3
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
2	Everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	4	nsubj	_	_
3	's	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:advcl
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	moral	moral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
16	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	moral	moral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	ccomp	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	teaches	teach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	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 | **get** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Everything | a moral |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer moral=Stimulus |
| 2 | **find** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | can | you | moral |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Duchess |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **is a** | present | a moral | the lesson |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | a story | the lesson *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lesson=Recipient |

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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:017-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-1.lesson:14`.

**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 ×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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