--- title: Resting, she wonders what to eat or drink to grow again, and peeps o… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 2: Little… · tree and pragmatics description: Resting, she wonders what to eat or drink to grow again, and peeps over a big mushroom to find a large blue caterpillar sitting on top: noisy and slapstick first, then quiet and curious. Who acts: Alice, large blue caterpillar. 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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, large blue caterpillar), 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:4 # text = Resting, she wonders what to eat or drink to grow again, and peeps over a big mushroom to find a large blue caterpillar sitting on top: noisy and slapstick first, then quiet and curious. # 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): no change 1 Resting rest VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 wonders wonder VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 7 obj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 again again ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 peeps peep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 16 over over ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 mushroom mushroom NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 23 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 24 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 caterpillar caterpillar NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 26 sitting sitting VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 acl _ _ 27 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 29 : : PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 30 noisy noisy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 parataxis _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 slapstick slapstick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 conj _ _ 33 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 30 advmod _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 36 advmod _ _ 36 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 conj _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 curious curious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 conj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rest** | gerund | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | present | Alice | | | | | | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **eat** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | | 4 | **drink** | infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **grow** | to-infinitive | | | | | again | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **peep** | present | Alice *not said here* | | | | | over a big mushroom | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over mushroom=Theme | | 7 | **find** | to-infinitive | Alice *not said here* | a large blue caterpillar | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caterpillar=Topic | | 8 | **sitting** | gerund | a large blue caterpillar *not said here* | | | top | | | 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. 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