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title: Twice in this part a paragraph begins "Down, down, down." to show ho… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1: Down the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Twice in this part a paragraph begins "Down, down, down." to show how long the fall goes on. Who acts: paragraph, fall. 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 dependency tree and the pra
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1: Down the Rabbit-Hole (the fall), sentence 21

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Twice in this part a paragraph begins "Down, down, down." to show how long the fall goes on.

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**Who acts:** paragraph, fall · **What happens:** begin, show, go on · **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 (paragraph, fall), 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:21
# text = Twice in this part a paragraph begins "Down, down, down." to show how long the fall goes on.
# 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): no change
1	Twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	7	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	paragraph	paragraph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	begins	begin	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Down	down	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	down	down	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	down	down	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
18	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
19	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
23	on	on	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **begin** | present | a paragraph |  |  |  |  | down, twice *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **show** | to-infinitive | a paragraph *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go on** | present | the fall |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:21`.

**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): no change. **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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