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title: She looks under the big mushroom, on both sides of it and behind it,… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 2: Little… · tree and pragmatics
description: She looks under the big mushroom, on both sides of it and behind it, and then thinks of looking on the top: there, on top of the mushroom, as tall as she is, sits a large blue caterpillar "with its arms folded, quietly smoking a long hookah"; a hookah is a tall smoking pipe with water in it, and smo
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# Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 2: Little Bill, the pebbles and the puppy, sentence 19

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She looks under the big mushroom, on both sides of it and behind it, and then thinks of looking on the top: there, on top of the mushroom, as tall as she is, sits a large blue caterpillar "with its arms folded, quietly smoking a long hookah"; a hookah is a tall smoking pipe with water in it, and smoking is very bad for health.

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**Who acts:** Alice, hookah, smoking · **What happens:** look, think, be, sit, fold, smoke · **To what, where:** large blue caterpillar, top, long hookah, tall smoking pipe · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 2: Little Bill, the pebbles and the puppy» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alice, hookah, smoking), 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:19
# text = She looks under the big mushroom, on both sides of it and behind it, and then thinks of looking on the top: there, on top of the mushroom, as tall as she is, sits a large blue caterpillar "with its arms folded, quietly smoking a long hookah"; a hookah is a tall smoking pipe with water in it, and smoking is very bad for health.
# 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	under	under	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
19	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
20	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
26	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	40	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	as	as	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
36	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
37	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	advcl	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
42	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
43	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	caterpillar	caterpillar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
45	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	44	punct	_	_
46	with	with	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nmod	_	_
49	folded	fold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	acl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=48:acl
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
52	smoking	smoke	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
53	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
54	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	hookah	hookah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	_
56	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	55	punct	_	_
57	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	64	punct	_	_
58	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	hookah	hookah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	nsubj	_	_
60	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	64	cop	_	_
61	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
62	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	64	amod	_	_
63	smoking	smoking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	compound	_	_
64	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
65	with	with	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
66	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	nmod	_	_
67	in	in	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
68	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	66	nmod	_	_
69	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	74	punct	_	_
70	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	74	cc	_	_
71	smoking	smoking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	74	nsubj	_	_
72	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	74	cop	_	_
73	very	very	ADV	RB	_	74	advmod	_	_
74	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
75	for	for	ADP	IN	_	76	case	_	_
76	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	74	obl	_	_
77	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present | Alice |  |  |  |  | under the big mushroom and both sides of puppy | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent under mushroom=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **look** | gerund | Alice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on the top | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on top=Theme |
| 4 | **be** | present | Alice |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **sit** | present |  | a large blue caterpillar |  | top of the mushroom; there |  | with puppy's arms | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent caterpillar=Theme on top=Location |
| 6 | **fold** *in a quote* | participle |  | a large blue caterpillar *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **smoke** *in a quote* | gerund | Alice *not said here* | a long hookah |  |  |  | quietly *property* | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent hookah=Source |
| 8 | **is a** | present | a hookah | a tall smoking pipe |  |  |  | with water in puppy | tree rules |
| 9 | **is** | present | smoking |  |  |  |  | for health; bad *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:19`.

**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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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/).

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