--- title: At last it crawls away, saying that one side of the mushroom will ma… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1: Advice f… · tree and pragmatics description: At last it crawls away, saying that one side of the mushroom will make her taller and the other side shorter: a prickly, puzzling talk that ends with a real clue. Who acts: size, one side, prickly puzzling talk. 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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 (size, one side, prickly puzzling talk), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:009-alice-ch5-part1-advice-from-a-caterpillar.lesson:4 # text = At last it crawls away, saying that one side of the mushroom will make her taller and the other side shorter: a prickly, puzzling talk that ends with a real clue. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 009-alice-ch5-part1-advice-from-a-caterpillar.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 ×1 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 last last ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 crawls crawl VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 away away ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 8 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 9 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 mushroom mushroom NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ _ 16 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 taller tall ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 15 xcomp _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 shorter short ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 17 conj _ _ 23 : : PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 25 prickly prickly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 puzzling puzzle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 talk talk NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 advcl _ _ 29 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 30 ends end VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 clue clue NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 . . 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 | **crawl away** | present | size | | | | | away, last *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | size *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **make** | future | one side of the mushroom | Alice | | | | tall *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product | | 4 | **end** | present | a prickly puzzling talk | | | | | with a real clue | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with clue=Subeventuality | 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:009-alice-ch5-part1-advice-from-a-caterpillar.lesson:4`. **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 ×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 V, part 1…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/9-alice-ch5-part1-advice-from-a-caterpillar/1/) - next →: [Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 1…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/9-alice-ch5-part1-advice-from-a-caterpillar/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/9-alice-ch5-part1-advice-from-a-caterpillar/)