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title: Her snatch out of the window brings "a little shriek and a fall, and… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 1: Stuck i… · tree and pragmatics
description: Her snatch out of the window brings "a little shriek and a fall, and a crash of broken glass"; a cucumber-frame is a low glass box that keeps young plants warm, like a tiny greenhouse. Who acts: snatch, cucumber frame, low glass box, Alice. A sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, 
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 1: Stuck in the White Rabbit's house, sentence 21

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Her snatch out of the window brings "a little shriek and a fall, and a crash of broken glass"; a cucumber-frame is a low glass box that keeps young plants warm, like a tiny greenhouse.

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**Who acts:** snatch, cucumber frame, low glass box, Alice, broken glass · **What happens:** bring, be, keep, snatch, crash · **To what, where:** little shriek, low glass box, young plants, window

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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 (snatch, cucumber frame, low glass box, Alice), 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:21
# text = Her snatch out of the window brings "a little shriek and a fall, and a crash of broken glass"; a cucumber-frame is a low glass box that keeps young plants warm, like a tiny greenhouse.
# 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 ×1
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	snatch	snatch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	fixed	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	shriek	shriek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	crash	crash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	broken	broken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	cucumber	cucumber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	_
27	frame	frame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
33	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
34	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
35	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
37	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=36:amod
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	like	like	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	greenhouse	greenhouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | present | Alice's snatch out the window | a little shriek and a fall and a crash of broken glass |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent shriek=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a cucumber frame | a low glass box |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **keep** | present | a low glass box | young plants |  |  |  | like a tiny greenhouse; warm *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Theme |
| 4 | **snatch** |  | Alice |  |  | the window |  |  | nom snatch «communication transitive»: poss=agent out=place |
| 5 | **crash** *in a quote* |  | broken glass |  |  |  |  |  | nom crash «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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:21`.

**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. **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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