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title: The hall is long and low, lit by a row of lamps hanging from the roo… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 2: The hall… · tree and pragmatics
description: The hall is long and low, lit by a row of lamps hanging from the roof, with locked doors all round. Who acts: hall, lamps. 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 dependency tree a
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 2: The hall of doors, DRINK ME and EAT ME, sentence 6

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The hall is long and low, lit by a row of lamps hanging from the roof, with locked doors all round.

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**Who acts:** hall, lamps · **What happens:** be, lit, hang, lock · **To what, where:** hall, roof

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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 (hall, lamps), 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:6
# text = The hall is long and low, lit by a row of lamps hanging from the roof, with locked doors all round.
# 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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	lit	lit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	lamps	lamp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	locked	lock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
21	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
22	all	all	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	round	round	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is** | present | the hall |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the hall *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lit** | participle |  | the hall *not said here* |  |  |  | by a row of lamps; with locked doors | tree rules |
| 4 | **hang** | gerund | lamps *not said here* |  |  | the roof |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **lock** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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:6`.

**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): no change. **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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