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title: The sister pictures Alice as a grown woman who keeps «the simple and… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice'… · tree and pragmatics
description: The sister pictures Alice as a grown woman who keeps «the simple and loving heart of her childhood» and tells other children strange tales, «perhaps even with the dream of Wonderland of long ago». Who acts: sister, grown woman, strange tales. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice's Evidence (sentence first, a pack of cards, and waking up), sentence 37

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The sister pictures Alice as a grown woman who keeps «the simple and loving heart of her childhood» and tells other children strange tales, «perhaps even with the dream of Wonderland of long ago».

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**Who acts:** sister, grown woman, strange tales · **What happens:** picture, grow, keep, tell, dream · **To what, where:** Alice, simple heart, other children, Wonderland · **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, grown woman, strange tales), 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:37
# text = The sister pictures Alice as a grown woman who keeps «the simple and loving heart of her childhood» and tells other children strange tales, «perhaps even with the dream of Wonderland of long ago».
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	pictures	picture	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	loving	loving	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	childhood	childhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
23	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	iobj	_	_
25	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
28	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	_
29	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
30	even	even	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Wonderland	wonderland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=33:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	33	advmod	_	_
38	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **picture** | present | the sister | Alice |  |  |  | as a grown woman | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent alice=Theme as woman=Attribute |
| 2 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **keep** | present | a grown woman | the simple heart of sister's childhood |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | strange tales and the dream of Wonderland |  | other children |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Recipient |
| 5 | **dream** *in a quote* |  |  | Wonderland |  |  |  |  | nom dream «cognition transitive»: of=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:024-alice-alices-evidence-2.lesson:37`.

**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 ×2, R8-pos-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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