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title: Alice begins «to grow larger again»; she first thinks of leaving the… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Sto… · tree and pragmatics
description: Alice begins «to grow larger again»; she first thinks of leaving the court, but decides to stay «as long as there was room for her». Who acts: Alice, room. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Stole the Tarts? (the Hatter, the cook and a surprise witness)» of the bo
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Stole the Tarts? (the Hatter, the cook and a surprise witness), sentence 15

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Alice begins «to grow larger again»; she first thinks of leaving the court, but decides to stay «as long as there was room for her».

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**Who acts:** Alice, room · **What happens:** begin, grow, think, leave, decide, stay · **To what, where:** court · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Stole the Tarts? (the Hatter, the cook and a surprise witness)» 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, room), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:022-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2.lesson:15
# text = Alice begins «to grow larger again»; she first thinks of leaving the court, but decides to stay «as long as there was room for her».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 022-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	begins	begin	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	xcomp	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord
12	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
13	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:acl
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	decides	decide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct
23	as	as	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:advmod
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	27	expl	_	_
27	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:advcl
28	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nmod	_	_
31	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | present | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **grow** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  | again | large *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Alice |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **leave** | gerund | Alice *not said here* | the court |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=Theme |
| 5 | **decide** | present | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **stay** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **be** *in a quote* | past | room for Alice |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:022-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2.lesson:15`.

**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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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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