--- title: A plate comes "skimming out, straight at the Footman's head", grazes… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The foo… · tree and pragmatics description: A plate comes "skimming out, straight at the Footman's head", grazes his nose (just scrapes it) and breaks, and he goes on talking "exactly as if nothing had happened": "I shall sit here till tomorrow—or next day, maybe." Who acts: plate, nose, footman, nothing. 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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 (plate, nose, footman, nothing), 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:15 # text = A plate comes "skimming out, straight at the Footman's head", grazes his nose (just scrapes it) and breaks, and he goes on talking "exactly as if nothing had happened": "I shall sit here till tomorrow—or next day, maybe." # 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): R8-pos-agree ×3 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 plate plate NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 skimming skim VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 6 out out ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 8 straight straight ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Footman footman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 12 's 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 grazes graze VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 21 punct _ _ 20 just just ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 scrapes scrape VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 21 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 breaks break VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 30 on on ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 31 talking talk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 xcomp _ _ 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 33 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 34 as as SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 35 if if SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 36 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 38 nsubj _ _ 37 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 happened happen VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 31 advcl _ _ 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=38:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 40 : : PUNCT : _ 44 punct _ _ 41 " " PUNCT `` _ 44 punct _ _ 42 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 43 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 sit sit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 45 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 44 advmod _ _ 46 till till ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 tomorrow tomorrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ _ 48 — - PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 49 or or CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 50 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 51 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl:unmarked _ _ 52 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 53 maybe maybe ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 54 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 55 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present | a plate | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **skim out** *in a quote* | gerund | a plate *not said here* | | | the Footman's head | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **graze** | present | a plate *not said here* | footman's nose | | | | | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Experiencer | | 4 | **scrape** | present | footman's nose *not said here* | nose | | | | | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 5 | **break** | present | a plate *not said here* | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **go on** | present | footman | | | | | | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **talk** | gerund | footman *not said here* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **happen** *in a quote* | past · perfect | nothing | | | | | exactly *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **sit** *in a quote* | shall | the Footman *= footman* | | | here | day; tomorrow | maybe *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:15`. **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): R8-pos-agree ×3. **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…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/11-alice-ch6-part1-pig-and-pepper/14/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/11-alice-ch6-part1-pig-and-pepper/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/11-alice-ch6-part1-pig-and-pepper/)