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title: A little bottle labelled "DRINK ME" appears on the table, "which cer… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 2: The hall… · tree and pragmatics
description: A little bottle labelled "DRINK ME" appears on the table, "which certainly was not here before", Alice says. Who acts: little bottle, Alice. 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 with its
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 2: The hall of doors, DRINK ME and EAT ME, sentence 12

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A little bottle labelled "DRINK ME" appears on the table, "which certainly was not here before", Alice says.

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**Who acts:** little bottle, Alice · **What happens:** label, drink, appear, not be, say · **To what, where:** little bottle, Alice, table · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (little bottle, Alice), 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:12
# text = A little bottle labelled "DRINK ME" appears on the table, "which certainly was not here before", Alice says.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	labelled	label	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	DRINK	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	ME	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
9	appears	appear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	ccomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
16	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	parataxis	_	_
20	before	before	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **label** | participle |  | a little bottle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **drink** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | Alice |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 3 | **appear** | present | a little bottle |  |  | the table |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | past |  |  |  |  |  | before, certainly, here *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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:002-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door.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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-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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