--- title: Her head strikes the roof of the hall: she is now "more than nine fe… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 1: Curious… · tree and pragmatics description: Her head strikes the roof of the hall: she is now "more than nine feet high", so she takes the golden key and hurries to the garden door. Who acts: head, Alice. 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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, Alice), 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:8 # text = Her head strikes the roof of the hall: she is now "more than nine feet high", so she takes the golden key and hurries to the garden door. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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 strikes strike 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 18 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 12 now now ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 14 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 16 advmod _ _ 15 than than ADP IN _ 14 fixed _ _ 16 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl:unmarked _ _ 18 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 key key NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 hurries hurry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 33 . . 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 | **strike** | present | Alice's head | the roof of the hall | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Alice | | | | now | nine feet *obl:unmarked*; high *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **take** | present | Alice | the golden key | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Theme | | 4 | **hurry** | present | Alice *not said here* | | | the garden door | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to door=Destination | 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:8`. **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): 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 II, part…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/3-alice-ch2-part1-curiouser-and-curiouser/7/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/3-alice-ch2-part1-curiouser-and-curiouser/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/3-alice-ch2-part1-curiouser-and-curiouser/)