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title: The Rabbit calls out "Why, Mary Ann, what are you doing out here?" a… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 1: Stuck i… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Rabbit calls out "Why, Mary Ann, what are you doing out here?" and orders her to fetch "a pair of gloves and a fan"; Alice says "He took me for his housemaid". Who acts: Rabbit, you, Alice. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 1: Stuck in the White Rabbit's house» of t
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 1: Stuck in the White Rabbit's house, sentence 9

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The Rabbit calls out "Why, Mary Ann, what are you doing out here?" and orders her to fetch "a pair of gloves and a fan"; Alice says "He took me for his housemaid".

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**Who acts:** Rabbit, you, Alice · **What happens:** call out, do out, order, fetch, say, take · **To what, where:** Mary, pair, Alice · **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, you, 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:9
# text = The Rabbit calls out "Why, Mary Ann, what are you doing out here?" and orders her to fetch "a pair of gloves and a fan"; Alice says "He took me for his housemaid".
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	calls	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Mary	Mary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	vocative	_	_
9	Ann	Ann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	obj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	orders	order	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	gloves	glove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	fan	fan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
34	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
36	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	38	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
37	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	ccomp	_	_
39	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	for	for	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	housemaid	housemaid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
43	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	38	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=42:punct
44	.	.	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 | **call out** *speech: ask* | present | the Rabbit |  |  |  |  | Mary *vocative* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **do out** *in a quote* | present · progressive | you |  |  | here |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 3 | **order** | present | the Rabbit *not said here* |  | Mary |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **fetch** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Rabbit *not said here* | a pair of gloves and a fan |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Theme |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **take** *in a quote* | past | Rabbit | Alice |  |  |  | for Rabbit's housemaid | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent i=Theme for housemaid=Beneficiary |

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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:9`.

**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 ×2, R7-rel-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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