--- title: Walking along, the nervous White Rabbit whispers that the Duchess is… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 1: The Q… · tree and pragmatics description: Walking along, the nervous White Rabbit whispers that the Duchess is under sentence of execution for boxing the Queen's ears, and Alice gives a little scream of laughter. Who acts: nervous Rabbit, Duchess, execution, 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 (nervous Rabbit, Duchess, execution, Alice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:015-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-1.lesson:10 # text = Walking along, the nervous White Rabbit whispers that the Duchess is under sentence of execution for boxing the Queen's ears, and Alice gives a little scream of laughter. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 015-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-1.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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Walking walk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 2 along along ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det 5 nervous nervous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:amod 6 White white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 Rabbit rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 whispers whisper VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:parataxis 9 that that SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Duchess Duchess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 under under ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 sentence sentence NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 ccomp _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 execution execution NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 for for SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 18 boxing box VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 acl _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 's 's PART POS _ 20 case _ _ 22 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 scream scream NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 laughter laughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **walk** | gerund | the nervous Rabbit *not said here* | | | | | along *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | present | the nervous Rabbit | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | the Duchess | | | sentence | | of execution | tree rules | | 4 | **box** | gerund | execution *not said here* | the Queen's ears | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Co-Agent | | 5 | **give** | present | Alice | a little scream of laughter | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scream=Theme | | 6 | **scream** | | laughter | | | | | | nom scream «communication intransitive»: of=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:015-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-1.lesson:10`. **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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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. 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