--- title: «It does the boots and shoes»: whiting is also an old word for a whi… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter X, part 1: The Lobs… · tree and pragmatics description: «It does the boots and shoes»: whiting is also an old word for a white chalk powder used for cleaning; shoes on land are «done with blacking», black polish. Who acts: sea, whiting, old word. 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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 (sea, whiting, old word), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:019-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-1.lesson:24 # text = «It does the boots and shoes»: whiting is also an old word for a white chalk powder used for cleaning; shoes on land are «done with blacking», black polish. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 019-alice-the-lobster-quadrille-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, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 boots boot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 shoes shoe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 8 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 9 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 10 whiting whiting NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 12 also also ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 13 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 18 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 19 chalk chalk NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 powder powder NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 21 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 acl _ _ 22 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 cleaning cleaning NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 shoes shoe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 28 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 29 « « PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ _ 30 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl:relcl _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 blacking black NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 33 » » NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 polish polish NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **do** *in a quote* | present | sea | the boots and shoes | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | whiting | a old word | | | | for a white chalk powder | tree rules | | 3 | **use** | participle | | a white chalk powder *not said here* | | | | for cleaning | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **do** *in a quote* | present · passive | a old word *not said here* | shoes on land | | | | with » and black polish; blacking *obl* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | 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. 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