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title: The little door is shut again and the golden key lies on the glass t… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Poo… · tree and pragmatics
description: The little door is shut again and the golden key lies on the glass table as before, so "things are worse than ever". Who acts: golden key, things. 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 with its
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Pool of Tears and the Mouse, sentence 8

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The little door is shut again and the golden key lies on the glass table as before, so "things are worse than ever".

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**Who acts:** golden key, things · **What happens:** shut, lie, be · **To what, where:** little door, glass table

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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 (golden key, things), 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:8
# text = The little door is shut again and the golden key lies on the glass table as before, so "things are worse than ever".
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	shut	shut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	key	key	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:nmod
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	before	before	ADV	RB	_	5	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
21	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	parataxis	_	_
24	than	than	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	23	obl	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **shut** | present · passive |  | the little door |  |  | again |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lie** | present | the golden key |  |  | the glass table |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on table=Location |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | things |  |  |  |  | bad *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:004-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears.lesson:8`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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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