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title: She imagines the address: "Alice's Right Foot, Esq., Hearthrug, near… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curious… · tree and pragmatics
description: She imagines the address: "Alice's Right Foot, Esq., Hearthrug, near the Fender"; "Esq." (Esquire) is a polite title on letters to a gentleman, the hearthrug is the rug in front of the fireplace and the fender is the low metal guard around it. Who acts: Alice, Esquire, hearthrug, fender. A sentence 
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curiouser and curiouser (who am I?), sentence 7

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She imagines the address: "Alice's Right Foot, Esq., Hearthrug, near the Fender"; "Esq." (Esquire) is a polite title on letters to a gentleman, the hearthrug is the rug in front of the fireplace and the fender is the low metal guard around it.

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**Who acts:** Alice, Esquire, hearthrug, fender · **What happens:** imagine, be · **To what, where:** address, polite title, letters, rug, front, low metal guard

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curiouser and curiouser (who am I?)» 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, Esquire, hearthrug, fender), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:003-alice-ch2-part1-curiouser-and-curiouser.lesson:7
# text = She imagines the address: "Alice's Right Foot, Esq., Hearthrug, near the Fender"; "Esq." (Esquire) is a polite title on letters to a gentleman, the hearthrug is the rug in front of the fireplace and the fender is the low metal guard around it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 003-alice-ch2-part1-curiouser-and-curiouser.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	imagines	imagine	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	address	address	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
7	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	_
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	Right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Esq	esq	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Hearthrug	hearthrug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	near	near	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Fender	fender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
23	Esq	esq	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
26	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
27	Esquire	esquire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
28	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	27	punct	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	title	title	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:ccomp
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	hearthrug	hearthrug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
41	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	rug	rug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	parataxis	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	fireplace	fireplace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	fender	fender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nsubj	_	_
52	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	56	cop	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
54	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
55	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	compound	_	_
56	guard	guard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	_
57	around	around	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nmod	_	_
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **imagine** | present | Alice | the address |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot address=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Esquire | a polite title |  | letters to a gentleman |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | the hearthrug | the rug and the low metal guard |  | front of the fireplace |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | the fender | the low metal guard |  | Hearthrug |  |  | tree rules |

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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, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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