--- title: She shrinks, runs out, and sees Bill the Lizard being held up by two… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 2: Little… · tree and pragmatics description: She shrinks, runs out, and sees Bill the Lizard being held up by two guinea-pigs, who give him something out of a bottle; the crowd rushes at her, but she escapes into a thick wood. Who acts: Alice, two guinea pigs, crowd. 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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, two guinea pigs, crowd), 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:14 # text = She shrinks, runs out, and sees Bill the Lizard being held up by two guinea-pigs, who give him something out of a bottle; the crowd rushes at her, but she escapes into a thick wood. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 shrinks shrink VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 5 out out ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 sees see VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=4:conj 9 Bill Bill PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Lizard lizard NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 12 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 held hold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:acl 14 up up ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 by by ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 16 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 17 guinea guinea NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ _ 19 pigs pig NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 22 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 23 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 iobj _ _ 24 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 22 obj _ _ 25 out out ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 bottle bottle NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:det 31 crowd crowd NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 rushes rush VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 33 at at ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obl _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 but but CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 escapes escape VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 39 into into ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shrink** | present | Alice | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **run out** | present | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **see** | present | Alice *not said here* | Bill | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **hold up** | gerund · passive | two guinea pigs | | | | | | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | | 5 | **give** | present | two guinea pigs | something | Rabbit | a bottle | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient something=Theme | | 6 | **rush** | present | the crowd | | | | | at Alice | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at she=Trajectory | | 7 | **escape** | present | Alice | | | a thick wood | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into wood=Initial\_Location | 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:14`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-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…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/8-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill/13/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/8-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/8-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill/)