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description: The Dodo presents the thimble with "We beg your acceptance of this elegant thimble", and they all cheer. Who acts: Dodo, We, words, your. 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 de
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes, a long tale, and Dinah again, sentence 8

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The Dodo presents the thimble with "We beg your acceptance of this elegant thimble", and they all cheer.

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**Who acts:** Dodo, We, words, your · **What happens:** present, beg, cheer, accept · **To what, where:** thimble, acceptance, elegant thimble

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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 (Dodo, We, words, your), 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:8
# text = The Dodo presents the thimble with "We beg your acceptance of this elegant thimble", and they all cheer.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Dodo	Dodo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	presents	present	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	thimble	thimble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	mark	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
8	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	beg	beg	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	acceptance	acceptance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
14	elegant	elegant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	thimble	thimble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	cheer	cheer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	.	.	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 | **present** | present | the Dodo | the thimble |  |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thimble=Theme |
| 2 | **beg** *speech: request* *in a quote* | present | We | your acceptance of this elegant thimble |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent acceptance=Recipient |
| 3 | **cheer** | present | words *= word* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **accept** *in a quote* |  | your | this elegant thimble |  |  |  |  | nom acceptance «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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