--- title: Alice says Dinah will "eat a little bird as soon as look at it", and… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part 2: Prizes… · tree and pragmatics description: Alice says Dinah will "eat a little bird as soon as look at it", and the birds leave on "various pretexts" (made-up excuses). Who acts: Alice, Dinah, birds. 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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, Dinah, birds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:006-alice-ch3-part2-a-long-tale.lesson:18 # text = Alice says Dinah will "eat a little bird as soon as look at it", and the birds leave on "various pretexts" (made-up excuses). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 006-alice-ch3-part2-a-long-tale.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 Dinah Dinah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 as as ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advmod 12 as as SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 13 look look NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 14 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 leave leave VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 24 various various ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 pretexts pretext NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 27 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 31 punct _ _ 28 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 amod _ _ 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ _ 30 up up ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 31 excuses excuse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 appos _ _ 32 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 31 punct _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Alice | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **eat** *in a quote* | future | Dinah | a little bird | | | | look *obl*; soon *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient | | 3 | **leave** | present | the birds | | | various pretexts | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on pretext=Location | | 4 | **make up** | participle | | | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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:006-alice-ch3-part2-a-long-tale.lesson:18`. **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 ×2, 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 III, part…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/6-alice-ch3-part2-a-long-tale/17/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter III, part…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/6-alice-ch3-part2-a-long-tale/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/6-alice-ch3-part2-a-long-tale/)