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title: Alice is now "about a thousand times as large as the Rabbit", yet sh… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 1: Stuck i… · tree and pragmatics
description: Alice is now "about a thousand times as large as the Rabbit", yet she "trembled till she shook the house" when she hears him coming, forgetting she has no reason to be afraid. Who acts: Alice, Rabbit. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 1: Stuck in the White Rabbit's hous
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 1: Stuck in the White Rabbit's house, sentence 20

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Alice is now "about a thousand times as large as the Rabbit", yet she "trembled till she shook the house" when she hears him coming, forgetting she has no reason to be afraid.

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**Who acts:** Alice, Rabbit · **What happens:** be, tremble, shook, hear, come, forget · **To what, where:** house, Rabbit, reason · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 1: Stuck in the White Rabbit's house» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alice, Rabbit), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:books:007-alice-ch4-part1-the-rabbits-house.lesson:20
# text = Alice is now "about a thousand times as large as the Rabbit", yet she "trembled till she shook the house" when she hears him coming, forgetting she has no reason to be afraid.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = books
# lesson = 007-alice-ch4-part1-the-rabbits-house.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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det
7	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
9	as	as	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
19	trembled	tremble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
20	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	shook	shook	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
26	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	hears	hear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:advcl
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	xcomp	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	forgetting	forget	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advcl
33	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	ccomp	_	_
35	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	36	det	_	_
36	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
38	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	cop	_	_
39	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	acl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:amod
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Alice |  |  |  | now; time | as the Rabbit; large *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tremble** *in a quote* | past | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **shook** *in a quote* | past | Alice | the house |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hear** | present | Alice | Rabbit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** | gerund | Rabbit *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **forget** | gerund | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **have** | present | Alice | no reason |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient |
| 8 | **is** | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | no reason *not said here* |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:007-alice-ch4-part1-the-rabbits-house.lesson:20`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×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/).

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