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title: Squashed chin-to-foot, she just manages to swallow a morsel (a small… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mush… · tree and pragmatics
description: Squashed chin-to-foot, she just manages to swallow a morsel (a small bite) of the left-hand bit. Who acts: chin. 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 with its dependency tree and the
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mushroom, the long neck and the Pigeon, sentence 8

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Squashed chin-to-foot, she just manages to swallow a morsel (a small bite) of the left-hand bit.

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**Who acts:** chin · **What happens:** squash, manage, swallow · **To what, where:** chin, morsel

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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 (chin), 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:8
# text = Squashed chin-to-foot, she just manages to swallow a morsel (a small bite) of the left-hand bit.
# 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	Squashed	squash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	chin	chin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
6	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	just	just	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	manages	manage	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	swallow	swallow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	morsel	morsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	bite	bite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
22	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:amod
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	_
24	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1: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 | **squash** | participle |  | chin and foot |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chin=Patient |
| 2 | **manage** | present | chin |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **swallow** | to-infinitive | chin *not said here* | a morsel of the hand bit |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent morsel=Patient |

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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:010-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon.lesson:8`.

**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/).

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