--- title: Nobody wants to go down the chimney, so it is "Bill's to go down"; A… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 2: Little… · tree and pragmatics description: Nobody wants to go down the chimney, so it is "Bill's to go down"; Alice says "they seem to put everything upon Bill!", meaning he gets all the jobs nobody wants. Who acts: Nobody, slate, Alice, ladders. 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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 (Nobody, slate, Alice, ladders), 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:7 # text = Nobody wants to go down the chimney, so it is "Bill's to go down"; Alice says "they seem to put everything upon Bill!", meaning he gets all the jobs nobody wants. # 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 Nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 2 nsubj _ _ 2 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 down down ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 chimney chimney NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 13 Bill Bill PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 14 's 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 17 down down ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 seem seem VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 ccomp _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 26 obj _ _ 28 upon upon ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 Bill Bill PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 ! ! PUNCT . _ 24 punct _ _ 31 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 meaning mean VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 parataxis _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 ccomp _ _ 36 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 38 det:predet _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 jobs job NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 39 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 40 nsubj _ _ 40 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 acl:relcl _ _ 41 . . 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 | **want** | present | Nobody | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **go down** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Nobody *not said here* | the chimney | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient chimney=Extent | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | slate | | | | | 's Bill | tree rules | | 4 | **go down** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Nobody *not said here* | | | | | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **say** *speech: express* | present | Alice | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **seem** *in a quote* | present | ladders *= ladder* | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 7 | **put** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | ladders *= ladder* *not said here* | everything | | | | upon Bill | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme upon bill=Destination | | 8 | **mean** | gerund | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 9 | **get** | present | Rabbit | all jobs | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer job=Stimulus | | 10 | **want** | present | nobody | all jobs *not said here* | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot job=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:7`. **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): no change. **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…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/8-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill/6/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/8-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/8-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill/)