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title: Alice heads for the March Hare's house, with ear-shaped chimneys and… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 2: The bab… · tree and pragmatics
description: Alice heads for the March Hare's house, with ear-shaped chimneys and a fur roof, makes herself two feet tall and walks up nervously: a strange, dreamy part, both funny and a bit creepy. Who acts: Alice. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 2: The baby, the pig and the Ches
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 2: The baby, the pig and the Cheshire Cat, sentence 4

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Alice heads for the March Hare's house, with ear-shaped chimneys and a fur roof, makes herself two feet tall and walks up nervously: a strange, dreamy part, both funny and a bit creepy.

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**Who acts:** Alice · **What happens:** head, shape, make, walk up · **To what, where:** Alice

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter VI, part 2: The baby, the pig and the Cheshire Cat» 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 (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:4
# text = Alice heads for the March Hare's house, with ear-shaped chimneys and a fur roof, makes herself two feet tall and walks up nervously: a strange, dreamy part, both funny and a bit creepy.
# 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	heads	head	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:conj
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Hare	Hare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
13	shaped	shape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
14	chimneys	chimney	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	appos	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	fur	fur	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
20	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
21	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	obj	_	_
22	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	walks	walk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
27	up	up	PART	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	nervously	nervously	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
29	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
31	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
33	dreamy	dreamy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	parataxis	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc:preconj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:advmod|HaikuPos=DET:DT:PronType=Tot
37	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=41:det
40	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=41:compound
41	creepy	creepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	conj	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **head** | present | Alice |  |  |  |  | for the March Hare's house | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **shape** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **make** | present | Alice *not said here* | Alice |  |  |  | tall *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset herself=Product |
| 4 | **walk up** | present | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | nervously *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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:4`.

**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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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/).

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