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title: Under the table she finds a little cake marked "EAT ME", reasons tha… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 2: The hall… · tree and pragmatics
description: Under the table she finds a little cake marked "EAT ME", reasons that any change of size will help, and eats it all: the part ends on a cliffhanger, full of hope and worry at once. Who acts: Alice, change, part, size. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 2: The hall of door
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 2: The hall of doors, DRINK ME and EAT ME, sentence 4

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Under the table she finds a little cake marked "EAT ME", reasons that any change of size will help, and eats it all: the part ends on a cliffhanger, full of hope and worry at once.

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**Who acts:** Alice, change, part, size · **What happens:** find, mark, eat, help, end, change · **To what, where:** little cake, table, Alice, cliffhanger · **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 (Alice, change, part, size), 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:4
# text = Under the table she finds a little cake marked "EAT ME", reasons that any change of size will help, and eats it all: the part ends on a cliffhanger, full of hope and worry at once.
# 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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Under	under	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	marked	mark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	EAT	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:parataxis
12	ME	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	reasons	reason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
17	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:nmod:unmarked
28	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	ends	end	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	cliffhanger	cliffhanger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	worry	worry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	_
41	at	at	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	31	obl	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present | Alice | a little cake |  | the table |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Topic |
| 2 | **mark** | participle |  | a little cake *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **eat** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | Alice |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 4 | **help** | future | any change of size |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **eat** | present | Alice *not said here* | table |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 6 | **end** | present | the part |  |  | a cliffhanger |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 7 | **change** |  | size |  |  |  |  |  | nom change «event intransitive»: of=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:4`.

**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 ×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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