--- title: The Rabbit and his gardener Pat argue about the giant arm in the win… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 1: Stuck i… · tree and pragmatics description: The Rabbit and his gardener Pat argue about the giant arm in the window, and a second snatch brings two shrieks and more broken glass: a scary situation turned into a funny one. Who acts: Rabbit, second snatch, scary situation. 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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 (Rabbit, second snatch, scary situation), 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:4 # text = The Rabbit and his gardener Pat argue about the giant arm in the window, and a second snatch brings two shrieks and more broken glass: a scary situation turned into a funny one. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Rabbit rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 gardener gardener NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 6 Pat Pat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 7 argue argue VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 8 about about ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 19 amod _ _ 19 snatch snatch NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 brings bring VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 21 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 shrieks shriek NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 26 amod _ _ 25 broken broken ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:conj 27 : : PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 scary scary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 situation situation NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 32 into into ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 funny funny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | the Rabbit and Rabbit's gardener | | | | | about the giant arm in the window | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about arm=Topic | | 2 | **bring** | present | a second snatch | two shrieks and more broken glass | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent shriek=Theme | | 3 | **turn** | past | a scary situation | | | | | into a funny one | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into one=Trajectory | 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:007-alice-ch4-part1-the-rabbits-house.lesson:4`. **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, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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 IV, part…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/7-alice-ch4-part1-the-rabbits-house/3/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/7-alice-ch4-part1-the-rabbits-house/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/7-alice-ch4-part1-the-rabbits-house/)