--- title: Alice draws her foot down the chimney, waits till she hears a little… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 2: Little… · tree and pragmatics description: Alice draws her foot down the chimney, waits till she hears a little animal scrambling close above her, says "This is Bill," and gives "one sharp kick" to stop it; a chorus cries "There goes Bill!" Who acts: Alice, little animal, This, chorus. 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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, little animal, This, chorus), 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:8 # text = Alice draws her foot down the chimney, waits till she hears a little animal scrambling close above her, says "This is Bill," and gives "one sharp kick" to stop it; a chorus cries "There goes Bill!" # 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:compound 2 draws draw VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 3 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 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 2 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 waits wait VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 10 till till SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 hears hear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 scrambling scrambling VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 acl _ _ 17 close close ADV RB Degree=Pos 16 advmod _ _ 18 above above ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 21 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 23 This this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 25 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:nsubj|HaikuPos=DET:DT:Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 Bill Bill PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 ccomp _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 27 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 30 " " PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ _ 31 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 32 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 kick kick NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 34 " " PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 advcl _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 ; ; PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 chorus chorus NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 41 cries cry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 parataxis _ _ 42 " " PUNCT `` _ 44 punct _ _ 43 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 44 expl _ _ 44 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=41:conj 45 Bill Bill PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 obj _ _ 46 ! ! PUNCT . _ 41 punct _ _ 47 " " PUNCT '' _ 41 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=narrate, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **draw** | present | Alice | Alice's foot | | | | down the chimney | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme | | 2 | **wait** | present | Alice *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **hear** | present | Alice | a little animal | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer animal=Stimulus | | 4 | **scrambling** | gerund | a little animal *not said here* | | | | | above Alice; close *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | This | Bill | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **give** | present | | one sharp kick | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kick=Theme | | 8 | **stop** | to-infinitive | | kick | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality | | 9 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | a chorus | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 10 | **go** *in a quote* | present | | Bill | | there | | | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bill=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:8`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-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…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/8-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill/7/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/8-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/8-alice-ch4-part2-little-bill/)