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title: «Suppressed» means stopped or held down; here the officers put the c… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Sto… · tree and pragmatics
description: «Suppressed» means stopped or held down; here the officers put the cheering guinea-pig head first into a canvas bag and sit on it; later a second guinea-pig cheers and is suppressed too, and Alice thinks «Come, that finished the guinea-pigs!» Who acts: officers, second guinea pig, Alice, that. A sen
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Stole the Tarts? (the Hatter, the cook and a surprise witness), sentence 23

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«Suppressed» means stopped or held down; here the officers put the cheering guinea-pig head first into a canvas bag and sit on it; later a second guinea-pig cheers and is suppressed too, and Alice thinks «Come, that finished the guinea-pigs!»

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**Who acts:** officers, second guinea pig, Alice, that · **What happens:** suppress, mean, stop, hold down, put, cheer · **To what, where:** cheering pig head, canvas bag, bag, guinea pigs · **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 (officers, second guinea pig, Alice, that), 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:23
# text = «Suppressed» means stopped or held down; here the officers put the cheering guinea-pig head first into a canvas bag and sit on it; later a second guinea-pig cheers and is suppressed too, and Alice thinks «Come, that finished the guinea-pigs!»
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Suppressed	suppress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	nsubj	_	_
3	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	stopped	stop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	ccomp	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
8	down	down	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	officers	officer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
15	cheering	cheer	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	amod	_	_
16	guinea	guinea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	_
18	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
20	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	13	advmod	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	canvas	canvas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	36	advmod	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
32	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	35	amod	_	_
33	guinea	guinea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	_
35	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	cheers	cheer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	suppressed	suppress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	conj	_	_
40	too	too	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
44	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
45	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	49	punct	_	_
46	Come	come	INTJ	UH	_	49	discourse	_	_
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
48	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	49	nsubj	_	_
49	finished	finish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	ccomp	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
51	guinea	guinea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	_
52	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	51	punct	_	_
53	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obj	_	_
54	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	44	punct	_	_
55	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:punct|HaikuPos=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 | **suppress** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **stop** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **hold down** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **put** | past | the officers | the cheering pig head |  | a canvas bag; here |  | first *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent head=Goal |
| 6 | **cheer** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **sit** | present | the officers *not said here* |  |  | bag |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on it=Location |
| 8 | **cheer** | present | a second guinea pig |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **suppress** | present · passive | a second guinea pig *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP» |
| 10 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 11 | **finish** *in a quote* | past | that | the guinea pigs |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality pig=Eventuality |

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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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**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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.

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