--- title: The Rabbit orders "A barrowful will do, to begin with", meaning a wh… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 2: Little… · tree and pragmatics description: The Rabbit orders "A barrowful will do, to begin with", meaning a wheelbarrow full, and a shower of pebbles rattles in at the window. Who acts: Rabbit, barrowful, shower. 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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, barrowful, shower), 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:12 # text = The Rabbit orders "A barrowful will do, to begin with", meaning a wheelbarrow full, and a shower of pebbles rattles in at the window. # 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): no change 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 orders order VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 5 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 barrowful barrowful NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 begin begin VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 11 obl _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 meaning mean VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 wheelbarrow wheelbarrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 shower shower NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 pebbles pebble NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 25 rattles rattle VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 26 in in ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 at at ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **order** | present | Rabbit | | | | | | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **do** *in a quote* | future | a barrowful | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **begin** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | a barrowful *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **mean** | gerund | a barrowful *not said here* | a wheelbarrow | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheelbarrow=Topic | | 5 | **rattle** | present | a shower of pebbles | | | | | at the window | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at window=Stimulus | 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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