--- title: The little house has a bright brass plate on the door reading "W. — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 1: Stuck i… · tree and pragmatics description: The little house has a bright brass plate on the door reading "W. Who acts: little house, bright brass plate. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 1: Stuck in the White Rabbit's house» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/7-alice-ch4-part1-the-rabbits-house/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/7-alice-ch4-part1-the-rabbits-house/) / 10 # Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 1: Stuck in the White Rabbit's house, sentence 10 The little house has a bright brass plate on the door reading "W. **Who acts:** little house, bright brass plate · **What happens:** have, read · **To what, where:** bright brass plate, door, W. This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 1: Stuck in the White Rabbit's house» 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 (little house, bright brass plate), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:007-alice-ch4-part1-the-rabbits-house.lesson:10 # text = The little house has a bright brass plate on the door reading "W. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 007-alice-ch4-part1-the-rabbits-house.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 ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 brass brass NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 plate plate NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 reading read VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 acl _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 14 W. W. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | the little house | a bright brass plate | | the door | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plate=Patient | | 2 | **read** | gerund | a bright brass plate *not said here* | W. | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent w.=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:007-alice-ch4-part1-the-rabbits-house.lesson:10`. **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 ×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 IV, part…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/7-alice-ch4-part1-the-rabbits-house/9/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/7-alice-ch4-part1-the-rabbits-house/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/7-alice-ch4-part1-the-rabbits-house/)