--- title: There a puppy, enormous to tiny Alice, bounds at her; she keeps it b… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 2: Little… · tree and pragmatics description: There a puppy, enormous to tiny Alice, bounds at her; she keeps it busy with a stick, dodging round a thistle, until it gets tired and she escapes. Who acts: 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 (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:3 # text = There a puppy, enormous to tiny Alice, bounds at her; she keeps it busy with a stick, dodging round a thistle, until it gets tired and she escapes. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 5 expl _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 puppy puppy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 enormous enormous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 bounds bound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 her her PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 14 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 busy busy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 stick stick NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 dodging dodge VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:conj 23 round round ADP IN _ 25 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 thistle thistle NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:obj 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 until until SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 parataxis _ _ 30 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 xcomp _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 escapes escape VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bound** | present | | | | | | at Alice | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at her=Trajectory | | 2 | **keep** | present | Alice | puppy | | | | busy *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **dodge** | gerund | Alice *not said here* | | | | | round a thistle | vn avoid-52 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **get** | present | puppy | | | | | tired *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **escape** | present | Alice | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:3`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/8-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill/2/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/8-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/8-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill/)