--- title: The pebbles turn into little cakes, and Alice reasons that a cake "c… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 2: Little… · tree and pragmatics description: The pebbles turn into little cakes, and Alice reasons that a cake "can't possibly make me larger", so it "must make me smaller, I suppose". Who acts: pebbles, Alice, cake, 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 (pebbles, Alice, cake, 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:13 # text = The pebbles turn into little cakes, and Alice reasons that a cake "can't possibly make me larger", so it "must make me smaller, I suppose". # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 pebbles pebble NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 into into ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 cakes cake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 reasons reason VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 that that SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 cake cake NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 15 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 16 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 17 possibly possibly ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 ccomp _ _ 19 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 larger large ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 18 xcomp _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 26 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 parataxis _ _ 28 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 27 xcomp _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 suppose suppose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 33 " " PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ 34 . . 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 | **turn** | present | the pebbles | | | little cakes | | | tree rules | | 2 | **reason** | present | Alice | | | | | | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **not** **make** *in a quote* | can | a cake | Alice | | | | large, possibly *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material i=Product | | 4 | **make** *in a quote* | must | shower | Alice | | | | small *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material i=Product | | 5 | **suppose** *in a quote* | present | Alice | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | 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:13`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/8-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill/12/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/8-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/8-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill/)