--- title: The Rabbit says "We must burn the house down!", and Alice shouts "If… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 2: Little… · tree and pragmatics description: The Rabbit says "We must burn the house down!", and Alice shouts "If you do, I'll set Dinah at you!", after which there is "a dead silence". Who acts: Rabbit, We, Alice, dead silence. 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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, We, Alice, dead silence), 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:10 # text = The Rabbit says "We must burn the house down!", and Alice shouts "If you do, I'll set Dinah at you!", after which there is "a dead silence". # 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): R2-punct-next ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 5 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 burn burn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 down down ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 11 ! ! PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 shouts shout VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 18 If if SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 22 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 ccomp _ _ 25 Dinah Dinah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 26 at at ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 obl _ _ 28 ! ! PUNCT . _ 24 punct _ _ 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 after after ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 obl _ _ 33 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 34 expl _ _ 34 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 35 " " PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 silence silence NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: express* | present | the Rabbit | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **burn down** *in a quote* | must | We | the house | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent house=Theme | | 3 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | Alice | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **set** *in a quote* | future | Alice | Dinah | | | | at you | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dinah=Theme at you=Destination | | 5 | **be** | present | a dead silence | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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