--- title: Measuring herself by the table she is about two feet high and still… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part 2: The Poo… · tree and pragmatics description: Measuring herself by the table she is about two feet high and still shrinking; the fan is the cause, and she drops it "just in time to avoid shrinking away altogether". Who acts: Alice, fan. 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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 (Alice, fan), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:004-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears.lesson:6 # text = Measuring herself by the table she is about two feet high and still shrinking; the fan is the cause, and she drops it "just in time to avoid shrinking away altogether". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 004-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Measuring measure VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 1 obj _ _ 3 by by ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 8 about about ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl:unmarked _ _ 11 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 parataxis _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 still still ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 shrinking shrink VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 conj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 fan fan NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 cause cause NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 drops drop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 27 just just ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 avoid avoid VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 acl _ _ 32 shrinking shrink VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:advcl 33 away away ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 altogether altogether ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:advmod 35 " " PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **measure** | gerund | | Alice | | | | by the table | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme herself=Value | | 2 | **is** | present | Alice | | | | | two feet *obl:unmarked*; high *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **shrink** | gerund | Alice *not said here* | | | | still | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **is a** | present | the fan | the cause | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **drop** | present | Alice | cause | | | time | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 6 | **avoid** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 7 | **shrink away** *in a quote* | gerund | Alice *not said here* | | | | | altogether, away *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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:004-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears.lesson:6`. **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 ×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…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/4-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears/5/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter II, part…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/4-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/4-alice-ch2-part2-the-pool-of-tears/)