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title: She runs to the little door, but it is shut again and the key is bac… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Poo… · tree and pragmatics
description: She runs to the little door, but it is shut again and the key is back on the table, and then she slips and lands up to her chin in salt water: the pool of her own tears. Who acts: Alice, door, key. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Pool of Tears and the Mouse» of
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Pool of Tears and the Mouse, sentence 1

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She runs to the little door, but it is shut again and the key is back on the table, and then she slips and lands up to her chin in salt water: the pool of her own tears.

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**Who acts:** Alice, door, key · **What happens:** run, be, slip, land up · **To what, where:** table, salt water

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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, door, key), 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:1
# text = She runs to the little door, but it is shut again and the key is back on the table, and then she slips and lands up to her chin in salt water: the pool of her own tears.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	shut	shut	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis
12	again	again	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	key	key	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
17	back	back	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	slips	slip	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	lands	land	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	chin	chin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:nmod
35	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
40	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **run** | present | Alice |  |  |  |  | to the little door *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to door=Result |
| 2 | **is** | present | door |  |  |  | again | shut *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | the key |  |  | the table |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **slip** | present | Alice |  |  |  | then |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **land up** | present | Alice *not said here* |  |  | salt water |  | to Alice's chin | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in water=Destination |

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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:1`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, 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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