--- title: Alice did not find a talking rabbit strange at the time; what made h… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1: Down the… · tree and pragmatics description: Alice did not find a talking rabbit strange at the time; what made her start to her feet was the Rabbit taking "a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket"; a waistcoat is a sleeveless jacket worn over a shirt. Who acts: Alice, Rabbit taking, waistcoat. 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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 (Alice, Rabbit taking, waistcoat), 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:9 # text = Alice did not find a talking rabbit strange at the time; what made her start to her feet was the Rabbit taking "a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket"; a waistcoat is a sleeveless jacket worn over a shirt. # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 talking talking NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 14 nsubj _ _ 14 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 csubj _ _ 15 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 start start VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 17 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:obl 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:det 22 Rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 taking taking NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 watch watch NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 out out ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 29 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 30 waistcoat waistcoat NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ _ 32 pocket pocket NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 33 " " PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ 34 ; ; PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 waistcoat waistcoat NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 37 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 sleeveless sleeveless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 jacket jacket NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 41 worn wear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 acl _ _ 42 over over ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 shirt shirt NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **find** | past · do-support | Alice | a talking rabbit | | | | strange *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Topic | | 2 | **make** | past | Rabbit taking | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **start** | infinitive | Rabbit taking *not said here* | | | | | to Rabbit's feet | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **is a** | past | | Rabbit taking | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | present | a waistcoat | a sleeveless jacket | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **wear** | participle | | a sleeveless jacket *not said here* | | a shirt | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | 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:9`. **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 ×2, 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. 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