--- title: The March Hare's house is so large that Alice does not like to go ne… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 2: The bab… · tree and pragmatics description: The March Hare's house is so large that Alice does not like to go nearer till she has nibbled some more of the left-hand bit and grown to about two feet high. Who acts: house, Alice. 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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 (house, Alice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:012-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat.lesson:21 # text = The March Hare's house is so large that Alice does not like to go nearer till she has nibbled some more of the left-hand bit and grown to about two feet high. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 012-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 March March PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Hare Hare PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 so so ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 9 that that SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 10 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 11 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 nearer near ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 15 advmod _ _ 17 till till SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 nibbled nibble VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 21 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 22 det _ _ 22 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 20 obj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 25 left leave ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ _ 27 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 20 conj _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 about about ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 34 nummod _ _ 34 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:obl 35 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 36 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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 | **is** | present | the March Hare's house | | | | | large *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **like** | present · do-support | Alice | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 3 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | | | | | near *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **nibble** | present · perfect | Alice | some more of the hand bit | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient | | 5 | **grow** | participle | Alice *not said here* | high | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:012-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat.lesson:21`. **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, R7-rel-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…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/12-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat/20/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part…, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/12-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/12-alice-ch6-part2-the-cheshire-cat/)