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title: The Rabbit can't get in at the door, so he tries the window; Alice s… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 1: Stuck i… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Rabbit can't get in at the door, so he tries the window; Alice snatches at the air, hears a shriek and breaking glass, and guesses he has fallen into a cucumber-frame. Who acts: Rabbit, Alice. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 1: Stuck in the White Rabbit's house» o
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 1: Stuck in the White Rabbit's house, sentence 3

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The Rabbit can't get in at the door, so he tries the window; Alice snatches at the air, hears a shriek and breaking glass, and guesses he has fallen into a cucumber-frame.

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**Who acts:** Rabbit, Alice · **What happens:** not get in, try, snatch, hear, break, guess · **To what, where:** door, window, air, shriek, cucumber frame · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Rabbit, Alice), 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:3
# text = The Rabbit can't get in at the door, so he tries the window; Alice snatches at the air, hears a shriek and breaking glass, and guesses he has fallen into a cucumber-frame.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	tries	try	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	snatches	snatch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	hears	hear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	shriek	shriek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	breaking	break	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	conj	_	_
28	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	guesses	guess	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	ccomp	_	_
35	into	into	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
37	cucumber	cucumber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	_
39	frame	frame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **not** **get in** | can | the Rabbit |  |  | the door |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **try** | present | Rabbit | the window |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Eventuality |
| 3 | **snatch** | present | Alice |  |  | the air |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hear** | present | Alice *not said here* | a shriek and glass |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer shriek=Stimulus |
| 5 | **break** | gerund | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **guess** | present | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 7 | **fall** | present · perfect | Rabbit |  |  |  |  | into a cucumber frame *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into frame=Result |

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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:007-alice-ch4-part1-the-rabbits-house.lesson:3`.

**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, R7-rel-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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