--- title: Alice gives one sharp kick with the foot she has up the chimney, and… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 2: Little… · tree and pragmatics description: Alice gives one sharp kick with the foot she has up the chimney, and Bill shoots out "like a sky-rocket"; when the Rabbit talks of burning the house down, Alice threatens to set her cat Dinah on them. Who acts: Alice, Bill, Rabbit. 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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, Bill, Rabbit), 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:1 # text = Alice gives one sharp kick with the foot she has up the chimney, and Bill shoots out "like a sky-rocket"; when the Rabbit talks of burning the house down, Alice threatens to set her cat Dinah on them. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 4 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 kick kick NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 up up ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 chimney chimney NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obj 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 Bill Bill PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:compound 17 shoots shoot VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 18 out out ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 20 like like ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 22 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ _ 24 rocket rocket NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 30 advmod _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 Rabbit rabbit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 30 talks talk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 advcl _ _ 31 of of SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 32 burning burn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 advcl _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 down down ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 threatens threaten VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 xcomp _ _ 41 her she PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 43 Dinah Dinah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 appos _ _ 44 on on ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obl _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | present | Alice | one sharp kick | | | | with the foot | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kick=Theme | | 2 | **have up** | present | Alice | the chimney | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient | | 3 | **shoot out** | present | Bill | | | | | like a sky rocket | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **talk** | present | the Rabbit | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **burn down** | gerund | the Rabbit *not said here* | the house | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent house=Theme | | 6 | **threaten** | present | Alice | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **set** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | Bill's cat | | | | on ladders *= ladder* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme on they=Destination | 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:008-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill.lesson:1`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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 IV, part…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/8-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill/0/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/8-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/8-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill/)