--- title: When she knocks, the Frog-Footman explains, very seriously and very… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 1: The foo… · tree and pragmatics description: When she knocks, the Frog-Footman explains, very seriously and very stupidly, why knocking is useless, and doesn't even blink when a plate flies out and just misses his nose. Who acts: Alice, Frog Footman, knocking, plate. 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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, knocking, plate), 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:2 # text = When she knocks, the Frog-Footman explains, very seriously and very stupidly, why knocking is useless, and doesn't even blink when a plate flies out and just misses his nose. # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 3 mark _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 knocks knock VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 Frog frog NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 8 Footman footman NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 explains explain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 very very ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 seriously seriously ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 very very ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 stupidly stupidly ADV RB _ 12 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 18 knocking knock VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 csubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 useless useless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 ccomp _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 24 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 25 even even ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 blink blink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 27 when when SCONJ WRB _ 30 mark _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 plate plate NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 flies fly VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 31 out out ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 just just ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 misses miss VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:conj 35 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 . . 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 | **knock** | present | Alice | | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **explain** *speech: assert* | present | the Frog Footman | | | | | seriously *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **knock** | gerund | | | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **is** | present | knocking | | | | | useless *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **blink** | present · do-support | the Frog Footman *not said here* | | | | | | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **fly out** | present | a plate | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **miss** | present | a plate *not said here* | footman's nose | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nose=Stimulus | 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:2`. **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, 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/). - ← previous: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/11-alice-ch6-part1-pig-and-pepper/1/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/11-alice-ch6-part1-pig-and-pepper/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/11-alice-ch6-part1-pig-and-pepper/)