--- title: Nibbling one bit and then the other, she gets "down to her usual hei… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mush… · tree and pragmatics description: Nibbling one bit and then the other, she gets "down to her usual height", and says "there's half my plan done now!" Who acts: Pigeon, plan, my. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mushroom, the long neck and the Pigeon» of the books course of Mova's primary school w --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/19/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/) / 19 # Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mushroom, the long neck and the Pigeon, sentence 19 Nibbling one bit and then the other, she gets "down to her usual height", and says "there's half my plan done now!" **Who acts:** Pigeon, plan, my · **What happens:** nibble, get, say, be, do, plan · **To what, where:** one bit · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mushroom, the long neck and the Pigeon» 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 (Pigeon, plan, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:010-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon.lesson:19 # text = Nibbling one bit and then the other, she gets "down to her usual height", and says "there's half my plan done now!" # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 010-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Nibbling nibble VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 2 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl:unmarked _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 5 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 7 advmod _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 12 down down ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 usual usual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 height height NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 22 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 23 expl _ _ 23 's be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 ccomp _ _ 24 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 26 det:predet _ _ 25 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 plan plan NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 27 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:acl 28 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 27 advmod _ _ 29 ! ! PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **nibble** | gerund | Pigeon *not said here* | one bit | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **get** | present | Pigeon | | | | | to Pigeon's usual height *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to height=Result | | 3 | **say** *speech: express* | present | Pigeon *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **be** *in a quote* | present | my plan | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **do** *in a quote* | participle | my plan *not said here* | | | | now | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **plan** *in a quote* | | my | | | | | | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=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:010-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon.lesson:19`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/18/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/)