--- title: Looking back over the whole book: a bored girl followed a White Rabb… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice'… · tree and pragmatics description: Looking back over the whole book: a bored girl followed a White Rabbit down a hole, grew and shrank, cried a pool of tears, met creatures who argued, gave orders and talked nonsense, and slowly learned to keep her temper, to hold her tongue when it would hurt, and in the end to stand up to unfairnes --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/24-alice-alices-evidence-2/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/) / [Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/24-alice-alices-evidence-2/) / 15 # Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice's Evidence (sentence first, a pack of cards, and waking up), sentence 15 Looking back over the whole book: a bored girl followed a White Rabbit down a hole, grew and shrank, cried a pool of tears, met creatures who argued, gave orders and talked nonsense, and slowly learned to keep her temper, to hold her tongue when it would hurt, and in the end to stand up to unfairness and say «Nonsense!» — before waking to tea-time on a summer afternoon. **Who acts:** bored girl, creatures, tongue, girl · **What happens:** look back, follow, grow, shrink, cry, meet · **To what, where:** White Rabbit, hole, end, pool, creatures, orders · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part 2: Alice's Evidence (sentence first, a pack of cards, and waking up)» 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 (bored girl, creatures, tongue, girl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:024-alice-alices-evidence-2.lesson:15 # text = Looking back over the whole book: a bored girl followed a White Rabbit down a hole, grew and shrank, cried a pool of tears, met creatures who argued, gave orders and talked nonsense, and slowly learned to keep her temper, to hold her tongue when it would hurt, and in the end to stand up to unfairness and say «Nonsense!» — before waking to tea-time on a summer afternoon. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 024-alice-alices-evidence-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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ _ 2 back back ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 over over ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 bored bored ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 followed follow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 White white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 Rabbit rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 15 down down ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct 19 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 shrank shrink VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 pool pool NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 tears tear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 30 creatures creature NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 31 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ _ 32 argued argue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:parataxis 35 orders order NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 talked talk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 38 nonsense nonsense NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 41 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 42 learned learn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 43 to to PART TO _ 44 mark _ _ 44 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 xcomp _ _ 45 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 temper temper NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ _ 47 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 48 to to PART TO _ 49 mark _ _ 49 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 conj _ _ 50 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 51 nmod:poss _ _ 51 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obj _ _ 52 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 55 advmod _ _ 53 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 55 nsubj _ _ 54 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 55 aux _ _ 55 hurt hurt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 49 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=49:conj 56 , , PUNCT , _ 60 punct _ _ 57 and and CCONJ CC _ 60 cc _ _ 58 in in ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 59 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 60 det _ _ 60 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 61 to to PART TO _ 62 mark _ _ 62 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 60 acl _ _ 63 up up ADP RP _ 62 compound:prt _ _ 64 to to ADP IN _ 65 case _ _ 65 unfairness unfairness NOUN NN Number=Sing 62 obl _ _ 66 and and CCONJ CC _ 67 cc _ _ 67 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 62 conj _ _ 68 « « PUNCT `` _ 69 punct _ _ 69 Nonsense nonsense NOUN NN Number=Sing 67 obj _ _ 70 ! ! PUNCT . _ 60 punct _ _ 71 » » PUNCT '' _ 60 punct _ _ 72 — - PUNCT : _ 74 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=60:punct 73 before before SCONJ IN _ 74 mark _ _ 74 waking wake VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 60 advcl _ _ 75 to to ADP IN _ 78 case _ _ 76 tea tea NOUN NN Number=Sing 78 compound _ _ 77 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 78 punct _ _ 78 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 74 obl _ _ 79 on on ADP IN _ 82 case _ _ 80 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 82 det _ _ 81 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 82 compound _ _ 82 afternoon afternoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 74 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=78:nmod 83 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look back** | gerund | | | | | | over the whole book | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over book=Theme | | 2 | **follow** | past | a bored girl | a White Rabbit | | a hole | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent rabbit=Theme down hole=Trajectory | | 3 | **grow** | past | | | | | in the end | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in end=Location | | 4 | **shrink** | past | | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | | a pool of tears | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pool=Topic | | 6 | **meet** | past | | creatures | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Co-Agent | | 7 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | past | creatures | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **give** | past | creatures *not said here* | orders | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | | 9 | **talk** | past | creatures *not said here* | nonsense | | | | | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent nonsense=Patient | | 10 | **learn** | past | | | | | | slowly *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 11 | **keep** | to-infinitive | | girl's temper | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temper=Theme | | 12 | **hold** | to-infinitive | | girl's tongue | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme | | 13 | **hurt** | would | tongue | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus | | 14 | **stand up** | to-infinitive | | | | | | to unfairness | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 15 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | Nonsense | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nonsense=Topic | | 16 | **wake** | gerund | | | | | afternoon; time | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 17 | **temper** | | girl | | | | | | nom temper «feeling transitive»: poss=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:024-alice-alices-evidence-2.lesson:15`. **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 ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/24-alice-alices-evidence-2/14/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter XII, part…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/24-alice-alices-evidence-2/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/24-alice-alices-evidence-2/)