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title: Her sister sits on, half-dreaming Wonderland too, and hears each str… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice'… · tree and pragmatics
description: Her sister sits on, half-dreaming Wonderland too, and hears each strange noise turn into an ordinary farm sound; she pictures Alice grown up, telling these tales to children of her own. Who acts: sister, strange noise. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice's Evide
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice's Evidence (sentence first, a pack of cards, and waking up), sentence 14

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Her sister sits on, half-dreaming Wonderland too, and hears each strange noise turn into an ordinary farm sound; she pictures Alice grown up, telling these tales to children of her own.

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**Who acts:** sister, strange noise · **What happens:** sit on, dream, hear, turn, picture, grow up · **To what, where:** Wonderland, strange noise, ordinary farm sound, Alice, tales, children · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice's Evidence (sentence first, a pack of cards, and waking up)» 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 (sister, strange noise), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:024-alice-alices-evidence-2.lesson:14
# text = Her sister sits on, half-dreaming Wonderland too, and hears each strange noise turn into an ordinary farm sound; she pictures Alice grown up, telling these tales to children of her own.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 024-alice-alices-evidence-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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	8	compound	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
8	dreaming	dream	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
9	Wonderland	wonderland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	too	too	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	hears	hear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
15	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	xcomp	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	pictures	picture	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
26	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	parataxis	_	_
31	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
32	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	nmod	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit on** | present | Alice's sister |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **dream** | gerund | Alice's sister *not said here* | Wonderland |  |  |  |  | vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wonderland=Topic |
| 3 | **hear** | present | Alice's sister *not said here* | each strange noise |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **turn** | present | each strange noise *not said here* |  |  | a ordinary farm sound |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into sound=Trajectory |
| 5 | **picture** | present | sister | Alice |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent alice=Theme |
| 6 | **grow up** | participle |  | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | this tales | children of sister's own |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Topic to child=Recipient |

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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:024-alice-alices-evidence-2.lesson:14`.

**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 ×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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