--- title: When they bow, their curly wigs get tangled, and Alice has to run of… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The foo… · tree and pragmatics description: When they bow, their curly wigs get tangled, and Alice has to run off to hide her laughter. Who acts: they, Alice. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The footmen and the Duchess's kitchen» of the books course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the p --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/11-alice-ch6-part1-pig-and-pepper/1/) [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 VI, part…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/11-alice-ch6-part1-pig-and-pepper/) / 1 # Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The footmen and the Duchess's kitchen, sentence 1 When they bow, their curly wigs get tangled, and Alice has to run off to hide her laughter. **Who acts:** they, Alice · **What happens:** bow, tangle, have, run off, hide · **To what, where:** curly wigs, laughter This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The footmen and the Duchess's kitchen» 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 (they, Alice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:011-alice-ch6-part1-pig-and-pepper.lesson:1 # text = When they bow, their curly wigs get tangled, and Alice has to run off to hide her laughter. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 011-alice-ch6-part1-pig-and-pepper.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): no change 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 bow bow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 curly curly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 wigs wig NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 8 get get AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 tangled tangle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 off off ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ _ 19 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 laughter laughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bow** | present | they | | | | | | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **tangle** | present · passive | | their curly wigs | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **have** | present | Alice | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **run off** | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **hide** | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | Alice's laughter | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laughter=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:011-alice-ch6-part1-pig-and-pepper.lesson:1`. **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): no change. **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 VI, part…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/11-alice-ch6-part1-pig-and-pepper/0/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/11-alice-ch6-part1-pig-and-pepper/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/11-alice-ch6-part1-pig-and-pepper/)