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title: A glass box under the table holds a small cake with "EAT ME" marked… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 2: The hall… · tree and pragmatics
description: A glass box under the table holds a small cake with "EAT ME" marked in currants (small dried grapes); her plan: "if it makes me grow larger, I can reach the key; and if it makes me grow smaller, I can creep under the door", so either way she gets into the garden. Who acts: glass box, box, Alice. A s
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 2: The hall of doors, DRINK ME and EAT ME, sentence 19

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A glass box under the table holds a small cake with "EAT ME" marked in currants (small dried grapes); her plan: "if it makes me grow larger, I can reach the key; and if it makes me grow smaller, I can creep under the door", so either way she gets into the garden.

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**Who acts:** glass box, box, Alice · **What happens:** hold, eat, mark, dry, make, grow · **To what, where:** small cake, Alice, currants, key, door, way

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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 (glass box, box, 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:19
# text = A glass box under the table holds a small cake with "EAT ME" marked in currants (small dried grapes); her plan: "if it makes me grow larger, I can reach the key; and if it makes me grow smaller, I can creep under the door", so either way she gets into the garden.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	under	under	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
13	EAT	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:acl
14	ME	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
16	marked	mark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	xcomp	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	currants	currant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
20	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
22	grapes	grape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	appos	_	_
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obl
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	38	punct	_	_
29	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	advcl	_	_
32	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
34	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	33	xcomp	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
36	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	key	key	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
43	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	52	advcl	_	_
46	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	45	obj	_	_
47	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	xcomp	_	_
48	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	47	xcomp	_	_
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
50	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
51	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	creep	creep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj
53	under	under	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	_
56	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	55	punct	_	_
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
58	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	conj	_	_
59	either	either	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	60	det	_	_
60	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nsubj	_	_
61	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	62	nsubj	_	_
62	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	60	acl:relcl	_	_
63	into	into	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
64	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	65	det	_	_
65	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	obl	_	_
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | present | a glass box under the table | a small cake |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | Alice |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **mark** | participle |  |  |  | currants |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent in currant=Destination |
| 4 | **dry** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **make** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | box | Alice |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **grow** *in a quote* | infinitive | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | large *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **reach** *in a quote* | can | Alice | the key |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent key=Theme |
| 8 | **make** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | box | Alice |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **grow** *in a quote* | infinitive | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | small *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **creep** *in a quote* | can | Alice |  |  | the door |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under door=Trajectory |
| 11 | **get** | present | Alice | either way *not said here* |  | the garden |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus |
| 12 | **plan** |  | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=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:002-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door.lesson:19`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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