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title: All the doors are locked; then she finds a little glass table with a… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 2: The hall… · tree and pragmatics
description: All the doors are locked; then she finds a little glass table with a tiny golden key, which opens only a little door fifteen inches high, and through it she sees the loveliest garden, but she is far too big to get in. Who acts: Alice, tiny golden key. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, c
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 2: The hall of doors, DRINK ME and EAT ME, sentence 1

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All the doors are locked; then she finds a little glass table with a tiny golden key, which opens only a little door fifteen inches high, and through it she sees the loveliest garden, but she is far too big to get in.

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**Who acts:** Alice, tiny golden key · **What happens:** lock, find, open, see, be, get in · **To what, where:** doors, little glass table, little door, loveliest garden, key

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 2: The hall of doors, DRINK ME and EAT ME» 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 (Alice, tiny golden key), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:002-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door.lesson:1
# text = All the doors are locked; then she finds a little glass table with a tiny golden key, which opens only a little door fifteen inches high, and through it she sees the loveliest garden, but she is far too big to get in.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 002-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door.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	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	locked	lock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	key	key	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	opens	open	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	only	only	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
26	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	inches	inch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	acl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	through	through	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	_
33	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	loveliest	lovely	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	37	amod	_	_
37	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
39	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
40	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
41	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
42	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	44	advmod	_	_
43	too	too	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	advcl	_	_
47	in	in	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **lock** | present · passive |  | all doors |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **find** | present | Alice | a little glass table |  |  | then | with a tiny golden key | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent table=Topic |
| 3 | **open** | present | a tiny golden key | a little door |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | present | Alice | the loveliest garden |  | key |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer garden=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is** | present | Alice |  |  |  |  | big, far *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **get in** | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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**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.

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