--- title: When Alice comes back, the Frog-Footman is sitting on the ground nea… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The foo… · tree and pragmatics description: When Alice comes back, the Frog-Footman is sitting on the ground near the door, "staring stupidly up into the sky"; from inside comes "a constant howling and sneezing", and now and then a great crash. Who acts: Alice, Frog Footman. 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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 (Alice, Frog Footman), 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:13 # text = When Alice comes back, the Frog-Footman is sitting on the ground near the door, "staring stupidly up into the sky"; from inside comes "a constant howling and sneezing", and now and then a great crash. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 3 mark _ _ 2 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 4 back back ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 Frog frog PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ _ 9 Footman footman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 sitting sit VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 near near ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 20 staring stare VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 21 stupidly stupidly ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:advmod 22 up up ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 23 into into ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 from from ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 inside inside ADV RB _ 30 obl _ _ 30 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:advcl 31 " " PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 constant constant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 howling howling NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 sneezing sneezing NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 37 " " PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 40 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 45 advmod _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 42 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 45 advmod _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 crash crash NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obl 46 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come back** | present | Alice | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **sit** | present · progressive | the Frog Footman | | | the ground near the door | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location | | 3 | **stare** *in a quote* | gerund | the Frog Footman *not said here* | | | | | stupidly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **come** | present | | a constant howling and sneezing and a great crash | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from inside=Initial\_Location | 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:13`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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. 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