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title: Lying on one side she can only look into the garden with one eye, so… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curious… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lying on one side she can only look into the garden with one eye, so getting through is "more hopeless than ever". Who acts: Alice, getting. 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 with its d
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curiouser and curiouser (who am I?), sentence 9

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Lying on one side she can only look into the garden with one eye, so getting through is "more hopeless than ever".

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**Who acts:** Alice, getting · **What happens:** lie, look, get through, be · **To what, where:** one side, garden

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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, getting), 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:9
# text = Lying on one side she can only look into the garden with one eye, so getting through is "more hopeless than ever".
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
17	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	csubj	_	_
18	through	through	ADP	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
21	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:advmod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJR:Degree=Cmp
22	hopeless	hopeless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
23	than	than	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	22	obl	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **lie** | gerund | Alice *not said here* |  |  | one side |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location |
| 2 | **look** | can | Alice |  |  | the garden |  | with one eye | tree rules |
| 3 | **get through** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cope-83-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | getting |  |  |  |  | hopeless *property* | 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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**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:003-alice-ch2-part1-curiouser-and-curiouser.lesson:9`.

**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): 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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