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title: Her head is free but her shoulders are "nowhere to be found"; she se… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mush… · tree and pragmatics
description: Her head is free but her shoulders are "nowhere to be found"; she sees "an immense length of neck" rising "like a stalk out of a sea of green leaves", which are really the tops of the trees. Who acts: head, chin, immense length, sea. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: 
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mushroom, the long neck and the Pigeon, sentence 9

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Her head is free but her shoulders are "nowhere to be found"; she sees "an immense length of neck" rising "like a stalk out of a sea of green leaves", which are really the tops of the trees.

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**Who acts:** head, chin, immense length, sea · **What happens:** be, find, see, rise · **To what, where:** shoulders, immense length, sea, tops

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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 (head, chin, immense length, sea), 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:9
# text = Her head is free but her shoulders are "nowhere to be found"; she sees "an immense length of neck" rising "like a stalk out of a sea of green leaves", which are really the tops of the trees.
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
10	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	immense	immense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:obl
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
25	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	acl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
27	like	like	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	stalk	stalk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nmod
30	out	out	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	_
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
39	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	43	nsubj	_	_
40	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
41	really	really	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	tops	top	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nmod	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is** | present | chin's head |  |  |  |  | free *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | chin's shoulders |  |  |  | nowhere *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **see** | present | chin | a immense length of neck |  | a sea of green leaves and the tops |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer length=Stimulus |
| 4 | **rise** | gerund | a immense length of neck *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like a stalk | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | present | a sea of green leaves and the tops | the tops |  |  |  | of the trees | tree rules |

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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: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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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/).

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