--- title: The White Rabbit comes back, dressed up, with white kid gloves and a… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curious… · tree and pragmatics description: The White Rabbit comes back, dressed up, with white kid gloves and a fan, muttering about the Duchess; when giant Alice says "If you please, sir", he drops everything and runs off in fright. Who acts: White Rabbit, giant Alice, you, Rabbit. 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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 (White Rabbit, giant Alice, you, Rabbit), 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:2 # text = The White Rabbit comes back, dressed up, with white kid gloves and a fan, muttering about the Duchess; when giant Alice says "If you please, sir", he drops everything and runs off in fright. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 White white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 Rabbit rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 back back ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 dressed dress VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:xcomp 8 up up ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 gloves glove NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 fan fan NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 muttering mutter VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:acl 19 about about ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Duchess Duchess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 23 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 26 advmod _ _ 24 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 advcl _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ _ 28 If if SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 30 please please INTJ UH _ 32 discourse _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 32 sir sir NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 ccomp _ _ 33 " " PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 drops drop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 37 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 36 obj _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ _ 40 off off ADP RP _ 39 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=39:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 41 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 fright fright NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come back** | present | the White Rabbit | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **dress up** | participle | the White Rabbit *not said here* | | | | | with white kid gloves and a fan | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **mutter** *speech: assert* | gerund | the White Rabbit *not said here* | | | | | about the Duchess | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about duchess=Topic | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | giant Alice | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **sir** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **drop** | present | Rabbit | everything | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme | | 7 | **run off** | present | Rabbit *not said here* | | | fright | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fright=Trajectory | 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:2`. **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, 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 II, part…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/3-alice-ch2-part1-curiouser-and-curiouser/1/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/3-alice-ch2-part1-curiouser-and-curiouser/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/3-alice-ch2-part1-curiouser-and-curiouser/)