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title: Out of breath, the Queen asks Alice if she has seen the Mock Turtle,… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Moc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Out of breath, the Queen asks Alice if she has seen the Mock Turtle, «the thing Mock Turtle Soup is made from», and takes her to meet him. Who acts: Queen, thing. 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 cou
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter IX, part 1: The Mock Turtle's Story (the Duchess and her morals), sentence 9

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Out of breath, the Queen asks Alice if she has seen the Mock Turtle, «the thing Mock Turtle Soup is made from», and takes her to meet him.

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**Who acts:** Queen, thing · **What happens:** ask, see, make, take, meet · **To what, where:** Alice, breath, Mock Turtle, Mock Turtle Soup, », Queen · **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 (Queen, thing), 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:9
# text = Out of breath, the Queen asks Alice if she has seen the Mock Turtle, «the thing Mock Turtle Soup is made from», and takes her to meet him.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×4
1	Out	out	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Mock	mock	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
15	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
17	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
20	Mock	mock	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
21	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
22	Soup	Soup	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:nsubj:pass|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl:relcl	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	»	»	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
30	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	.	.	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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | the Queen |  | Alice | breath |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent alice=Recipient |
| 2 | **see** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · perfect | Queen | the Mock Turtle |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer turtle=Stimulus |
| 3 | **make** *in a quote* | present · passive | the thing *not said here* | Mock Turtle Soup |  | » |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from »=Material |
| 4 | **take** | present | the Queen *not said here* | Queen |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent she=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 5 | **meet** | to-infinitive | the Queen *not said here* | Soup |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |

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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:9`.

**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, R8-pos-agree ×4. **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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