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title: Then, thump! thump! she lands on a heap of sticks and dry leaves, an… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1: Down the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, thump! thump! she lands on a heap of sticks and dry leaves, and the fall is over: a lazy beginning that suddenly turns into a wild, dreamy adventure. Who acts: hole, fall, lazy beginning. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1: Down the Rabbit-Hole (the fall)» of the 
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1: Down the Rabbit-Hole (the fall), sentence 4

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Then, thump! thump! she lands on a heap of sticks and dry leaves, and the fall is over: a lazy beginning that suddenly turns into a wild, dreamy adventure.

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**Who acts:** hole, fall, lazy beginning · **What happens:** land, be, turn · **To what, where:** heap, wild dreamy adventure

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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 (hole, fall, lazy beginning), 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:4
# text = Then, thump! thump! she lands on a heap of sticks and dry leaves, and the fall is over: a lazy beginning that suddenly turns into a wild, dreamy adventure.
# 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	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	thump	thump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	discourse	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
5	thump	thump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	lands	land	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	heap	heap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	over	over	ADV	RB	_	8	conj	_	_
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
28	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
30	into	into	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
32	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	dreamy	dreamy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	adventure	adventure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **land** | present | hole |  |  | a heap of sticks and dry leaves | then |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on heap=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | present | the fall |  |  |  |  | over *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **turn** | present | a lazy beginning |  |  | a wild dreamy adventure |  | suddenly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into adventure=Trajectory |

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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:4`.

**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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