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title: The Dormouse, squashed beside her, grumbles that she has no right to… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Sto… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Dormouse, squashed beside her, grumbles that she has no right to grow here; Alice answers that he is growing too, and he says huffily that he grows «at a reasonable pace», and moves away. Who acts: Alice, room. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Stole the Tart
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Stole the Tarts? (the Hatter, the cook and a surprise witness), sentence 2

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The Dormouse, squashed beside her, grumbles that she has no right to grow here; Alice answers that he is growing too, and he says huffily that he grows «at a reasonable pace», and moves away.

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**Who acts:** Alice, room · **What happens:** squash, grumble, have, grow, answer, say · **To what, where:** Dormouse, right, reasonable pace, » · **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:2
# text = The Dormouse, squashed beside her, grumbles that she has no right to grow here; Alice answers that he is growing too, and he says huffily that he grows «at a reasonable pace», and moves away.
# 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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Dormouse	dormouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	squashed	squash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
5	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	grumbles	grumble	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl	_	_
16	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	answers	answer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	ccomp	_	_
24	too	too	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
29	huffily	huffily	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	ccomp	_	_
33	«	«	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:det
36	reasonable	reasonable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:amod
37	pace	pace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:compound
38	»	»	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	moves	move	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:conj
42	away	away	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2: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 | **squash** | participle |  | the Dormouse *not said here* |  |  |  | beside Alice | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent beside she=Trajectory |
| 2 | **grumble** *speech: other* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **have** | present | Alice | no right |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Patient |
| 4 | **grow** | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | no right *not said here* |  | here |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **grow** | present · progressive | room |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | room |  |  |  |  | huffily *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 8 | **grow** | present | room | a reasonable pace |  | » |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at »=Location |
| 9 | **move away** | present | room *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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:2`.

**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 ×4, R6-punct-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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