--- title: She finds a little house "about four feet high", and, so as not to "… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mush… · tree and pragmatics description: She finds a little house "about four feet high", and, so as not to "frighten them out of their wits", she nibbles the right-hand bit until she is nine inches high. Who acts: Pigeon. 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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 (Pigeon), 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:20 # text = She finds a little house "about four feet high", and, so as not to "frighten them out of their wits", she nibbles the right-hand bit until she is nine inches high. # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 finds find VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 7 about about ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 8 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl:unmarked _ _ 10 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 16 as as ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 20 frighten frighten VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advcl 21 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 out out ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 wits wit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 nibbles nibble VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 31 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:amod 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ _ 33 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 35 until until SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=40:mark|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 36 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 37 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 38 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 39 inches inch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obl:unmarked _ _ 40 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 advcl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | present | Pigeon | a little house | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Topic | | 2 | **not** **frighten** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Pigeon *not said here* | eggs *= egg* | | eggs's wits | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer | | 3 | **nibble** | present | Pigeon | the hand bit | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Patient | | 4 | **is** | present | Pigeon | | | | | nine inches *obl:unmarked*; high *property* | tree rules | 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:20`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/19/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/)