--- title: Next they throw pebbles in at the window, but the pebbles turn into… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 2: Little… · tree and pragmatics description: Next they throw pebbles in at the window, but the pebbles turn into little cakes; Alice eats one, shrinks, and runs past the crowd into a thick wood. Who acts: ladders, pebbles, 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 (ladders, pebbles, 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:2 # text = Next they throw pebbles in at the window, but the pebbles turn into little cakes; Alice eats one, shrinks, and runs past the crowd 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Next next ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 throw throw VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 pebbles pebble NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 but but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 pebbles pebble NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 14 into into ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 cakes cake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 20 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 shrinks shrink VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 runs run VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 26 past past ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 crowd crowd NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 into into ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **throw in** | present | ladders *= ladder* | pebbles | | the window | | next *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent pebble=Theme at window=Destination | | 2 | **turn** | present | the pebbles | | | little cakes | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into cake=Trajectory | | 3 | **eat** | present | Alice | one | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | | 4 | **shrink** | present | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **run** | present | Alice *not said here* | | | | | into a thick wood *result*; past the crowd | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into wood=Result | 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:2`. **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, 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…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/8-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill/1/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/8-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/8-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill/)