--- title: At last the puppy sits panting with its tongue out, and Alice runs o… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 2: Little… · tree and pragmatics description: At last the puppy sits panting with its tongue out, and Alice runs off and leans against a buttercup to rest; later she says "what a dear little puppy it was!" Who acts: puppy, Alice. 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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 (puppy, Alice), 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:18 # text = At last the puppy sits panting with its tongue out, and Alice runs off and leans against a buttercup to rest; later she says "what a dear little puppy it was!" # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:case 2 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:amod 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 puppy puppy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obl 5 sits sit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 panting pant VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advcl 7 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 out out ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 15 off off ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 leans lean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 18 against against ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 buttercup buttercup NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 rest rest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 advcl _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 26 advmod _ _ 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ _ 28 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 30 advmod _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 30 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 31 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 puppy puppy NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 ccomp _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 34 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 35 ! ! PUNCT . _ 32 punct _ _ 36 " " PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | present | the puppy | | | last | | | tree rules | | 2 | **pant** | gerund | the puppy *not said here* | | | | | with puppy's tongue; out *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **run off** | present | Alice | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **lean** | present | Alice *not said here* | | | a buttercup | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against buttercup=Location | | 5 | **rest** | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **say** *speech: express* | present | Alice | | | | | late *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | puppy | a dear little puppy | | | | | tree rules | 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:18`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/8-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill/16/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/8-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/8-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill/)