--- title: Alice tucks her flamingo under her arm, but it twists round and look… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter VIII, part 2: The Q… · tree and pragmatics description: Alice tucks her flamingo under her arm, but it twists round and looks up at her with «such a puzzled expression that she could not help bursting out laughing». Who acts: Alice, flamingo, puzzled expression. 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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, flamingo, puzzled expression), 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:12 # text = Alice tucks her flamingo under her arm, but it twists round and looks up at her with «such a puzzled expression that she could not help bursting out laughing». # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 tucks tuck VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 flamingo flamingo NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 under under ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 twists twist VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 12 round round ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 15 up up ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 her her PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obl _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 19 « « PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 20 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 23 det:predet _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 puzzled puzzle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 amod _ _ 23 expression expression NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 24 that that SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 acl:relcl _ _ 29 bursting burst VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 xcomp _ _ 30 out out ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 31 laughing laugh VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:advcl 32 » » PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tuck** | present | Alice | Alice's flamingo | | Alice's arm | | | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent flamingo=Theme under arm=Trajectory | | 2 | **twist** | present | flamingo | | | | | round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **look up** | present | flamingo *not said here* | | | | | at Alice; with such puzzled expression | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at her=Theme | | 4 | **puzzle** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **not** **help** *in a quote* | could | Alice | such puzzled expression *not said here* | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent expression=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 6 | **burst out** *not said to happen, in a quote* | gerund | such puzzled expression *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **laugh** *in a quote* | gerund | such puzzled expression *not said here* | » | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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:016-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-2.lesson:12`. **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, 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. 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