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title: Her plan is first "to grow to my right size again" and second "to fi… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 2: Little… · tree and pragmatics
description: Her plan is first "to grow to my right size again" and second "to find my way into that lovely garden", but "she had not the smallest idea how to set about it". Who acts: plan, Alice. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 2: Little Bill, the pebbles and the puppy» of the bo
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 2: Little Bill, the pebbles and the puppy, sentence 15

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Her plan is first "to grow to my right size again" and second "to find my way into that lovely garden", but "she had not the smallest idea how to set about it".

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**Who acts:** plan, Alice · **What happens:** be, grow, find, not have, set, plan · **To what, where:** way, lovely garden, smallest idea · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 2: Little Bill, the pebbles and the puppy» 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 (plan, Alice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:008-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill.lesson:15
# text = Her plan is first "to grow to my right size again" and second "to find my way into that lovely garden", but "she had not the smallest idea how to set about it".
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 008-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill.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 ×5
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	0	root	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	again	again	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	conj	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
23	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:advmod
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	smallest	small	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	34	amod	_	_
34	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
35	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	37	advmod	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	acl	_	_
38	about	about	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obl	_	_
40	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=37:punct
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Alice's plan |  |  |  |  | first *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Alice's plan *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to my right size | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **be** |  | Alice's plan *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **find** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Alice's plan *not said here* | my way |  | that lovely garden |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
| 5 | **not** **have** *in a quote* | past | Alice | the smallest idea |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient |
| 6 | **set** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | the smallest idea *not said here* |  |  |  | about plan | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent about it=Destination |
| 7 | **plan** |  | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:008-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill.lesson:15`.

**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 ×5. **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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