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title: Burning with curiosity, Alice dashes after him and jumps down a rabb… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1: Down the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Burning with curiosity, Alice dashes after him and jumps down a rabbit-hole without once thinking how she will get out again. Who acts: Alice. 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 with its depe
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1: Down the Rabbit-Hole (the fall), sentence 2

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Burning with curiosity, Alice dashes after him and jumps down a rabbit-hole without once thinking how she will get out again.

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**Who acts:** Alice · **What happens:** burn, dash, jump down, think, get out · **To what, where:** rabbit hole · **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), 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:2
# text = Burning with curiosity, Alice dashes after him and jumps down a rabbit-hole without once thinking how she will get out again.
# 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Burning	burn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advcl
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	dashes	dash	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj
7	after	after	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	jumps	jump	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
11	down	down	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
15	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obj
16	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	18	advmod	_	_
18	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
19	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
23	out	out	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	again	again	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10: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 | **burn** | gerund | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with curiosity | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with curiosity=Theme |
| 2 | **dash** | present | Alice |  |  |  | after book |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **jump down** | present | Alice *not said here* | a rabbit hole |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **get out** | future | Alice |  |  |  | again | out *property* | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=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:001-alice-ch1-part1-down-the-rabbit-hole.lesson:2`.

**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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×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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