--- title: Alice puts the Lizard in head downwards; she sets him right, though… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 1: Alice'… · tree and pragmatics description: Alice puts the Lizard in head downwards; she sets him right, though she thinks he'd be «quite as much use in the trial one way up as the other». Who acts: Alice, trial. 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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, trial), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:023-alice-alices-evidence-1.lesson:19 # text = Alice puts the Lizard in head downwards; she sets him right, though she thinks he'd be «quite as much use in the trial one way up as the other». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 023-alice-alices-evidence-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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 puts put VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Lizard Lizard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:compound 7 downwards downwards ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 sets set VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 11 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 right right ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 though though SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 thinks think VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:parataxis 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 18 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 19 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 24 cop _ _ 20 « « PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 21 quite quite ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 as as ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 use use NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 ccomp _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 trial trial NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:nmod:unmarked 30 up up ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:advmod 31 as as ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 34 » » PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 35 . . 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 | **put** | present | Alice | | the Lizard | | | head *obl*; downwards *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent lizard=Goal | | 2 | **set** | present | Alice | trial | | | | right *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient he=Result | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Alice | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | would | trial | much use | | the trial | | as the other | tree rules | 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:023-alice-alices-evidence-1.lesson:19`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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 XII, part…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/23-alice-alices-evidence-1/18/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part…, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/23-alice-alices-evidence-1/23/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/23-alice-alices-evidence-1/)