--- title: The cake works: Alice shoots up like a pulled-out telescope until he… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curious… · tree and pragmatics description: The cake works: Alice shoots up like a pulled-out telescope until her feet seem miles away, and she jokes about posting them presents for Christmas. Who acts: cake, Alice, feet. 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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 (cake, Alice, feet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:003-alice-ch2-part1-curiouser-and-curiouser.lesson:0 # text = The cake works: Alice shoots up like a pulled-out telescope until her feet seem miles away, and she jokes about posting them presents for Christmas. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 003-alice-ch2-part1-curiouser-and-curiouser.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cake cake NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 5 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 shoots shoot VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 7 up up ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 like like ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 10 pulled pull VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 amod _ _ 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ _ 12 out out NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:compound 13 telescope telescope NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 14 until until SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 seem seem VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 18 miles mile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:obj 19 away away ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc 22 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 jokes joke VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 24 about about SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 25 posting post VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:obl 26 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:obj 27 presents present NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 Christmas Christmas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **work** | present | the cake | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **shoot up** | present | Alice | | | | | like a pulled telescope | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **pull** | participle | | | | | | | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **seem** | present | Alice's feet | | | | | away *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **joke** *speech: other* | present | Alice | | | | | | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **post** | gerund | Alice *not said here* | presents | feet *= foot* | | | for Christmas | 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:003-alice-ch2-part1-curiouser-and-curiouser.lesson:0`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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 I, part 2…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/2-alice-ch1-part2-the-little-door/19/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/3-alice-ch2-part1-curiouser-and-curiouser/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/3-alice-ch2-part1-curiouser-and-curiouser/)