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title: The old Magpie says "the night-air doesn't suit my throat", and a Ca… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes… · tree and pragmatics
description: The old Magpie says "the night-air doesn't suit my throat", and a Canary calls its children to bed. Who acts: old Magpie, night air, Canary. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes, a long tale, and Dinah again» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes, a long tale, and Dinah again, sentence 19

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The old Magpie says "the night-air doesn't suit my throat", and a Canary calls its children to bed.

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**Who acts:** old Magpie, night air, Canary · **What happens:** say, not suit, call · **To what, where:** throat, children, bed · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes, a long tale, and Dinah again» 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 (old Magpie, night air, Canary), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:006-alice-ch3-part2-a-long-tale.lesson:19
# text = The old Magpie says "the night-air doesn't suit my throat", and a Canary calls its children to bed.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 006-alice-ch3-part2-a-long-tale.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): R8-pos-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Magpie	magpie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	_
9	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	suit	suit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Canary	canary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
20	calls	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the old Magpie |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **suit** *in a quote* | present · do-support | the night air | my throat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **call** | present | a Canary | Canary's children | bed |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Topic to bed=Recipient |

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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): R8-pos-agree ×2. **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.

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