--- title: The hole turns into a very deep well, and she falls so slowly that s… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1: Down the… · tree and pragmatics description: The hole turns into a very deep well, and she falls so slowly that she can look at shelves and cupboards, grab a jar, chatter about the centre of the Earth and the people on the other side of the world, and nearly fall asleep thinking about her cat Dinah. Who acts: hole. 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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 (hole), 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:3 # text = The hole turns into a very deep well, and she falls so slowly that she can look at shelves and cupboards, grab a jar, chatter about the centre of the Earth and the people on the other side of the world, and nearly fall asleep thinking about her cat Dinah. # 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 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 into into ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 very very ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 well well NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 falls fall VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 15 that that SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 19 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 shelves shelf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 cupboards cupboard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 grab grab VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 jar jar NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 chatter chatter VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 29 about about ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 centre centre NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:conj 38 on on ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:obl 42 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod _ _ 45 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 47 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 48 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 49 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 xcomp _ _ 50 thinking think VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 48 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=49:advcl 51 about about ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 52 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 53 nmod:poss _ _ 53 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obl _ _ 54 Dinah Dinah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 53 appos _ _ 55 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | present | the hole | | | a deep well | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into well=Trajectory | | 2 | **fall** | present | hole | | | | | slowly *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **look** | can | hole | | | | | at shelves and cupboards | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at shelf=Theme | | 4 | **grab** | infinitive | hole *not said here* | a jar | | | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jar=Theme | | 5 | **chatter** | infinitive | hole *not said here* | | | | | about the centre of the Earth and the people on the other side of the world | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about centre=Topic | | 6 | **fall** | infinitive | the hole *not said here* | | | | | asleep, nearly *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | the hole *not said here* | | | | | about hole's cat | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about cat=Topic | 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:3`. **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. **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/). - ← previous: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/1-alice-ch1-part1-down-the-rabbit-hole/2/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/1-alice-ch1-part1-down-the-rabbit-hole/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/1-alice-ch1-part1-down-the-rabbit-hole/)