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title: Alice notices she has slipped on one of the Rabbit's tiny gloves: sh… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Poo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Alice notices she has slipped on one of the Rabbit's tiny gloves: she is shrinking again, and fast, because of the fan in her hand, so she drops it just in time. Who acts: Alice. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Pool of Tears and the Mouse» of the books course o
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Pool of Tears and the Mouse, sentence 0

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Alice notices she has slipped on one of the Rabbit's tiny gloves: she is shrinking again, and fast, because of the fan in her hand, so she drops it just in time.

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**Who acts:** Alice · **What happens:** notice, slip, shrink, drop · **To what, where:** hand · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Pool of Tears and the Mouse» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:004-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears.lesson:0
# text = Alice notices she has slipped on one of the Rabbit's tiny gloves: she is shrinking again, and fast, because of the fan in her hand, so she drops it just in time.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 004-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	notices	notice	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	slipped	slip	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Rabbit	rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	gloves	glove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	shrinking	shrink	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
18	again	again	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	because	because	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	fixed	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	fan	fan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
32	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	drops	drop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	just	just	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **notice** | present | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **slip** | present · perfect | Alice |  |  |  |  | on one of the Rabbit's tiny gloves | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **shrink** | present · progressive | Alice |  |  |  | again | because the fan in Alice's hand | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **drop** | present | Alice | hand |  |  | time |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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:004-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears.lesson:0`.

**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, 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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