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title: The drink tastes of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey,… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 2: The hall… · tree and pragmatics
description: The drink tastes of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffee and hot buttered toast, and it shrinks her to "only ten inches high". Who acts: drink. 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 pr
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 2: The hall of doors, DRINK ME and EAT ME, sentence 14

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The drink tastes of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffee and hot buttered toast, and it shrinks her to "only ten inches high".

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**Who acts:** drink · **What happens:** taste, butter, shrink · **To what, where:** Alice

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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 (drink), 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:14
# text = The drink tastes of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffee and hot buttered toast, and it shrinks her to "only ten inches high".
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	tastes	taste	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	cherry	cherry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	_
7	tart	tart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	custard	custard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	_
13	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	roast	roast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	turkey	turkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	toffee	toffee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	buttered	butter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	toast	toast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=18:conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	shrinks	shrink	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
27	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:mark|HaikuPos=PART:TO:_
29	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	_
30	only	only	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	inches	inch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl:unmarked	_	_
33	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:xcomp
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **taste** | present | the drink |  |  |  |  | of cherry tart and custard and pine apple and roast turkey and toffee and hot buttered toast | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **butter** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **shrink** | present | drink | Alice |  |  |  | to high *result* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent she=Patient to high=Result |

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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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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