--- title: Just as Alice gets her flamingo's neck straight, it twists round and… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 2: The Q… · tree and pragmatics description: Just as Alice gets her flamingo's neck straight, it twists round and looks up into her face so puzzled that she bursts out laughing; meanwhile her hedgehog uncurls and crawls away, and the soldier-arches keep getting up and wandering off. Who acts: Alice, neck, hedgehog, soldier arches. 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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, neck, hedgehog, soldier arches), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:016-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-2.lesson:1 # text = Just as Alice gets her flamingo's neck straight, it twists round and looks up into her face so puzzled that she bursts out laughing; meanwhile her hedgehog uncurls and crawls away, and the soldier-arches keep getting up and wandering off. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 016-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-2.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Just just ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 as as SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:mark 3 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 5 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 flamingo flamingo NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 9 straight straight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 twists twist VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 round round ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 16 up up ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 into into ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 puzzled puzzle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 parataxis _ _ 22 that that SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 bursts burst VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 ccomp _ _ 25 out out ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 26 laughing laugh VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:xcomp 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 meanwhile meanwhile ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 29 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 hedgehog hedgehog NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 uncurls uncurl VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 crawls crawl VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 34 away away ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:advmod 35 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 38 soldier soldier NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 39 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ _ 40 arches arch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nsubj _ _ 41 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 42 getting get VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 41 xcomp _ _ 43 up up ADP RP _ 42 compound:prt _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 wandering wonder VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 42 conj _ _ 46 off off ADP RP _ 45 compound:prt _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4: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 | **get** | present | Alice | Alice's flamingo's neck | | | | straight *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer neck=Stimulus | | 2 | **twist** | present | neck | | | | | round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **look up** | present | neck *not said here* | | | | | into Alice's face | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into face=Theme | | 4 | **burst out** | present | Alice | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **laugh** | gerund | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **uncurl** | present | Alice's hedgehog | | | | | meanwhile *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **crawl away** | present | Alice's hedgehog *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **keep** | present | the soldier arches | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **get up** | gerund | the soldier arches *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 10 | **wonder off** *speech: ask* | gerund | the soldier arches *not said here* | | | | | | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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:016-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-2.lesson:1`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×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 VIII, par…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/16-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-2/0/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, par…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/16-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-2/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/16-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-2/)