--- title: Outside the house a whole crowd arrives with ladders, and after a lo… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 2: Little… · tree and pragmatics description: Outside the house a whole crowd arrives with ladders, and after a lot of shouting they decide that poor Bill, a lizard, must climb down the chimney to deal with the giant. Who acts: whole crowd, lot, ladders, poor Bill. 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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 (whole crowd, lot, ladders, poor Bill), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:008-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill.lesson:0 # text = Outside the house a whole crowd arrives with ladders, and after a lot of shouting they decide that poor Bill, a lizard, must climb down the chimney to deal with the giant. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 008-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill.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 Outside outside ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 crowd crowd NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 arrives arrive VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 ladders ladder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 12 after after SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 of of SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 16 shouting shout VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 decide decide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:parataxis 19 that that SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 20 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 Bill Bill PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 lizard lizard NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 appos _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 26 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 climb climb VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 ccomp _ _ 28 down down ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 chimney chimney NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 deal deal VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 advcl _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 giant giant NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **arrive** | present | a whole crowd | | | | | outside the house; with ladders | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund | a lot | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **decide** | present | ladders *= ladder* | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **climb down** | must | poor Bill | the chimney | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location chimney=Theme | | 5 | **deal** | to-infinitive | poor Bill *not said here* | | | | | with the giant | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with giant=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. 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