--- title: Her head bumps the roof of the hall, she is more than nine feet tall… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curious… · tree and pragmatics description: Her head bumps the roof of the hall, she is more than nine feet tall, and now she can only peep at the garden with one eye, so she cries and cries until a pool of tears spreads half down the hall. Who acts: head, pool. 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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 (head, pool), 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:1 # text = Her head bumps the roof of the hall, she is more than nine feet tall, and now she can only peep at the garden with one eye, so she cries and cries until a pool of tears spreads half down the hall. # 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): R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 bumps bump VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 roof roof NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 hall hall NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 parataxis _ _ 13 than than ADP IN _ 12 fixed _ _ 14 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl:unmarked _ _ 16 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 19 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 23 advmod _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 only only ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 peep peep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 24 at at ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:nmod 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 so so ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 32 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 cries cry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 cries cry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 36 until until SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 pool pool NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:obl 39 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 tears tear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nmod _ _ 41 spreads spread VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 42 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 41 obj _ _ 43 down down ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 hall hall NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=42:nmod 46 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bump** | present | Alice's head | the roof of the hall | | | | | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roof=Patient | | 2 | **is** | present | head | | | | | more *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **peep** | can | head | | | | now | with one eye; at the garden | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at garden=Theme | | 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | head | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | head *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **spread** | present | a pool of tears | half | | | | down the hall | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location half=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:003-alice-ch2-part1-curiouser-and-curiouser.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 ×4, 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 II, part…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/3-alice-ch2-part1-curiouser-and-curiouser/0/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/3-alice-ch2-part1-curiouser-and-curiouser/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/3-alice-ch2-part1-curiouser-and-curiouser/)