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title: The party on the bank is "dripping wet, cross, and uncomfortable": b… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The dr… · tree and pragmatics
description: The party on the bank is "dripping wet, cross, and uncomfortable": birds with draggled (wet and dirty) feathers and animals with fur clinging to them. Who acts: party, fur. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The driest thing and the Caucus-race» of the books course o
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The driest thing and the Caucus-race, sentence 6

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The party on the bank is "dripping wet, cross, and uncomfortable": birds with draggled (wet and dirty) feathers and animals with fur clinging to them.

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**Who acts:** party, fur · **What happens:** drip, draggl, cling · **To what, where:** animals

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 1: The driest thing and the Caucus-race» 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 (party, fur), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:005-alice-ch3-part1-a-caucus-race.lesson:6
# text = The party on the bank is "dripping wet, cross, and uncomfortable": birds with draggled (wet and dirty) feathers and animals with fur clinging to them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 005-alice-ch3-part1-a-caucus-race.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	dripping	drip	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	cross	cross	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
17	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	appos	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
19	draggled	draggl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
21	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	parataxis	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
25	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	clinging	cling	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	acl	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	_
33	.	.	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 | **drip** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the party on the bank |  |  |  |  | wet *property* | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
| 2 | **draggl** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cling** | gerund | fur *not said here* |  | animals *= animal* |  |  |  | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to they=Co-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:005-alice-ch3-part1-a-caucus-race.lesson:6`.

**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): 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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