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title: The Mouse says Alice must have a prize herself; all she has left is… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Mouse says Alice must have a prize herself; all she has left is a thimble (a small metal cap that protects your finger when sewing). Who acts: Mouse, Alice, all, small metal cap. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes, a long tale, and Dinah again» of the book
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes, a long tale, and Dinah again, sentence 7

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The Mouse says Alice must have a prize herself; all she has left is a thimble (a small metal cap that protects your finger when sewing).

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**Who acts:** Mouse, Alice, all, small metal cap · **What happens:** say, have, leave, be, protect, sew · **To what, where:** prize, thimble, finger · **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 (Mouse, Alice, all, small metal cap), 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:7
# text = The Mouse says Alice must have a prize herself; all she has left is a thimble (a small metal cap that protects your finger when sewing).
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	prize	prize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod:unmarked
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Tot
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	thimble	thimble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	protects	protect	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	28	mark	_	_
28	sewing	sew	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
29	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct
30	.	.	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Mouse |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** | must | Alice | a prize |  |  |  | Alice *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Patient |
| 3 | **leave** | present · perfect | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present | all | a thimble |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **protect** | present | a small metal cap | your finger |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Beneficiary |
| 6 | **sew** | gerund | a small metal cap *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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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**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:7`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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/).

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