--- title: Alice is sitting on a grassy bank next to her big sister on a hot, s… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1: Down the… · tree and pragmatics description: Alice is sitting on a grassy bank next to her big sister on a hot, sleepy day, bored stiff, because her sister's book has no pictures and no talking in it. Who acts: Alice, book. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alice, book), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:001-alice-ch1-part1-down-the-rabbit-hole.lesson:0 # text = Alice is sitting on a grassy bank next to her big sister on a hot, sleepy day, bored stiff, because her sister's book has no pictures and no talking in it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 001-alice-ch1-part1-down-the-rabbit-hole.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 1 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 sitting sit VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 grassy grassy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 bank bank NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 next next ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 15 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 17 sleepy sleepy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 bored bored ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 stiff stiff ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 advcl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 because because SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 24 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod:poss _ _ 26 's 's PART POS _ 25 case _ _ 27 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 29 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 30 det _ _ 30 pictures picture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 33 det _ _ 33 talking talking NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | present · progressive | Alice | | | a grassy bank | day | to Alice's big sister | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location | | 2 | **have** | present | Alice's sister's book | no pictures and no talking | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Patient | 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:001-alice-ch1-part1-down-the-rabbit-hole.lesson:0`. **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. **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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