--- title: They tie the ladders together, because one alone does not "reach hal… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 2: Little… · tree and pragmatics description: They tie the ladders together, because one alone does not "reach half high enough"; a loose slate (a flat stone tile of the roof) falls with a crash, and someone shouts "Heads below!", which means watch out below. Who acts: ladders, one, loose slate, someone. 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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, one, loose slate, someone), 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:6 # text = They tie the ladders together, because one alone does not "reach half high enough"; a loose slate (a flat stone tile of the roof) falls with a crash, and someone shouts "Heads below!", which means watch out below. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 tie tie VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 ladders ladder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 together together ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 7 because because SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 8 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nsubj _ _ 9 alone alone ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advmod 10 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 13 reach reach VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 14 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 15 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 15 high high ADV RB Degree=Pos 16 advmod _ _ 16 enough enough ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 loose loose ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 slate slate NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 22 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 26 punct _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 24 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 25 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 tile tile NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 appos _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 roof roof NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 26 punct _ _ 31 falls fall VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 crash crash NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 38 nsubj _ _ 38 shouts shout VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 39 " " PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ _ 40 Heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obj _ _ 41 below below ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 42 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 44 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 45 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 46 nsubj _ _ 46 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 acl:relcl _ _ 47 watch watch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 46 ccomp _ _ 48 out out ADP RP _ 47 compound:prt _ _ 49 below below ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ _ 50 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tie** | present | ladders *= ladder* | the ladders | | | | together *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ladder=Patient | | 2 | **not** **reach** *in a quote* | present · do-support | one | | | | | enough *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **fall** | present | a loose slate | | | | | with a crash | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | someone | Heads | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic | | 5 | **mean** | present | Heads | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **watch out** | infinitive | | | | | | below *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | 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:6`. **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, R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/8-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill/5/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/8-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/8-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill/)