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title: Her foot slips and "splash! she was up to her chin in salt water"; s… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Poo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Her foot slips and "splash! she was up to her chin in salt water"; she first thinks it is the sea and that she can "go back by railway". Who acts: foot, key. 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 scho
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Pool of Tears and the Mouse, sentence 9

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Her foot slips and "splash! she was up to her chin in salt water"; she first thinks it is the sea and that she can "go back by railway".

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**Who acts:** foot, key · **What happens:** slip, splash, be up, think, be, go back · **To what, where:** sea · **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 (foot, 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:9
# text = Her foot slips and "splash! she was up to her chin in salt water"; she first thinks it is the sea and that she can "go back by railway".
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	slips	slip	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	splash	splash	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	chin	chin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	21	advmod	_	_
21	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=6:conj
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	ccomp	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	_
31	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
32	back	back	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	railway	railway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34:punct
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **slip** | present | Alice's foot |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **splash** *in a quote* | present | Alice's foot *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be up** *in a quote* | past | foot |  |  |  |  | to Alice's chin in salt water | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | present | foot |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | present | key | the sea |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **go back** *in a quote* | can | foot |  |  |  |  | by railway | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |

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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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-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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