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title: She wondered if she would fall right through the earth and come out… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1: Down the… · tree and pragmatics
description: She wondered if she would fall right through the earth and come out among people walking upside down and called them "the Antipathies"; she meant the Antipodes, the people on the opposite side of the world, while an antipathy is a strong dislike. Who acts: Alice, people, antipathy. A sentence of the
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1: Down the Rabbit-Hole (the fall), sentence 17

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She wondered if she would fall right through the earth and come out among people walking upside down and called them "the Antipathies"; she meant the Antipodes, the people on the opposite side of the world, while an antipathy is a strong dislike.

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**Who acts:** Alice, people, antipathy · **What happens:** wonder, fall, come out, walk, call, mean · **To what, where:** earth, upside, people, Antipodes, strong dislike · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1: Down the Rabbit-Hole (the fall)» 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 (Alice, people, antipathy), 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:17
# text = She wondered if she would fall right through the earth and come out among people walking upside down and called them "the Antipathies"; she meant the Antipodes, the people on the opposite side of the world, while an antipathy is a strong dislike.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wondered	wonder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
7	right	right	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	through	through	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
13	out	out	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	among	among	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	upside	upside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	down	down	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Antipathies	antipathy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	xcomp	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:advcl
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Antipodes	antipode	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	appos	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
42	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
43	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	antipathy	antipathy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
45	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	dislike	dislike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	advcl	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | past | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **fall** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | Alice |  |  | the earth |  | right *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through earth=Location |
| 3 | **come out** | infinitive | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | among people; out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **walk** | gerund | people *not said here* | upside |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme upside=Trajectory |
| 5 | **call** | past | Alice *not said here* | people |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 6 | **mean** | past | Alice | the Antipodes |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent antipode=Topic |
| 7 | **is a** | present | a antipathy | a strong dislike |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:001-alice-ch1-part1-down-the-rabbit-hole.lesson:17`.

**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): 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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