--- title: Alice pulls out a box of comfits (sugar-coated sweets) that the salt… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes… · tree and pragmatics description: Alice pulls out a box of comfits (sugar-coated sweets) that the salt water had not got into, and there is "exactly one a-piece, all round"; "a-piece" means each. Who acts: Alice, salt water, one piece, piece. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alice, salt water, one piece, piece), 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:6 # text = Alice pulls out a box of comfits (sugar-coated sweets) that the salt water had not got into, and there is "exactly one a-piece, all round"; "a-piece" means each. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 pulls pull VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 out out ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 comfits comfit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 8 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 9 sugar sugar NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ _ 11 coated coat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 amod _ _ 12 sweets sweet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 13 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 14 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 obl _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 18 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 got get VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 acl _ _ 21 into into ADP IN _ 20 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 25 expl _ _ 25 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 27 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ _ 31 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 all all ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:PronType=Tot 34 round round ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:parataxis|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 35 " " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 36 ; ; PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 37 " " PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=40:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ _ 40 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ _ 42 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 43 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 42 obj _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pull out** | present | Alice | a box of comfits | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **coat** | participle | | | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **not** **get** | past · perfect | the salt water | comfits | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **be** | present | a one piece | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **mean** | present | a piece | each | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Topic | 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. **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:006-alice-ch3-part2-a-long-tale.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, R7-rel-agree ×4, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/6-alice-ch3-part2-a-long-tale/5/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/6-alice-ch3-part2-a-long-tale/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/6-alice-ch3-part2-a-long-tale/)