--- title: An enormous puppy reaches out a paw to her; Alice speaks to it "in a… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 2: Little… · tree and pragmatics description: An enormous puppy reaches out a paw to her; Alice speaks to it "in a coaxing tone" (gently and sweetly), but she is afraid it might be hungry and eat her. Who acts: enormous puppy, Alice, puppy. 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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 (enormous puppy, Alice, puppy), 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:16 # text = An enormous puppy reaches out a paw to her; Alice speaks to it "in a coaxing tone" (gently and sweetly), but she is afraid it might be hungry and eat her. # 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 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 enormous enormous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 puppy puppy NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 reaches reach VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 out out ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 paw paw NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=PRON:PRP$:Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 speaks speak VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obl _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 coaxing coax VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 amod _ _ 19 tone tone NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 21 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 22 gently gently ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 sweetly sweetly ADV RB _ 22 conj _ _ 25 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 but but CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 afraid afraid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 32 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 34 cop _ _ 34 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 ccomp _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 conj _ _ 37 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reach out** | present | a enormous puppy | a paw | Alice | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent paw=Theme | | 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | Alice | | puppy | a coaxing tone | | gently *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to it=Co-Agent | | 3 | **coax** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | Alice | | | | | afraid *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | might | puppy | | | | | hungry *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **eat** | infinitive | puppy *not said here* | Alice | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | 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:16`. **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. **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…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/8-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill/15/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/8-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/8-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill/)