--- title: Nibbling the right-hand bit, she feels "a violent blow underneath he… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mush… · tree and pragmatics description: Nibbling the right-hand bit, she feels "a violent blow underneath her chin: it had struck her foot!", because she is shrinking so fast. Who acts: Alice, bit. 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 pr --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mushroom, the long neck and the Pigeon, sentence 7 Nibbling the right-hand bit, she feels "a violent blow underneath her chin: it had struck her foot!", because she is shrinking so fast. **Who acts:** Alice, bit · **What happens:** nibble, feel, strike, shrink · **To what, where:** hand bit, violent blow, chin, foot 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 (Alice, bit), 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:7 # text = Nibbling the right-hand bit, she feels "a violent blow underneath her chin: it had struck her foot!", because she is shrinking so fast. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Nibbling nibble VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 3 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 5 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:obl:unmarked 7 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 8 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 violent violent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 blow blow NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 14 underneath underneath ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 chin chin NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 struck strike VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 conj _ _ 21 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 ! ! PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 because because SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 27 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 shrinking shrink VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 30 so so ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 29 advmod _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **nibble** | gerund | Alice *not said here* | the hand bit | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Patient | | 2 | **feel** | present | Alice | a violent blow | | Alice's chin | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent blow=Theme underneath chin=Location | | 3 | **strike** *in a quote* | past · perfect | bit | Alice's foot | | | | | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient | | 4 | **shrink** | present · progressive | Alice | | | | | fast *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:7`. **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/). - ← previous: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/6/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/)