--- title: Falling down the rabbit hole, Alice thinks «after such a fall as thi… — Off with her head and the finest house on the ri… · tree and pragmatics description: Falling down the rabbit hole, Alice thinks «after such a fall as this, I shall think nothing of tumbling down stairs!» — a boast that she will now be very brave. Who acts: Alice. A sentence of the lesson «Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice and Toad» of the language course of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/54-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/) / [Off with her head and the finest house…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/54-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad/) / 9 # Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice and Toad, sentence 9 Falling down the rabbit hole, Alice thinks «after such a fall as this, I shall think nothing of tumbling down stairs!» — a boast that she will now be very brave. **Who acts:** Alice · **What happens:** fall down, think, tumble down, be · **To what, where:** rabbit hole, nothing, stairs, boast · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Off with her head and the finest house on the river: Alice and Toad» of the language course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:054-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad.lesson:9 # text = Falling down the rabbit hole, Alice thinks «after such a fall as this, I shall think nothing of tumbling down stairs!» — a boast that she will now be very brave. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 054-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad.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 Falling fall VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 2 down down ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 rabbit rabbit NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 7 Alice Alice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 thinks think VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 « « PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 10 after after ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 13 det:predet _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 fall fall NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 14 as as ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 13 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 17 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 ccomp _ _ 20 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 19 obj _ _ 21 of of SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 22 tumbling tumble VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 acl _ _ 23 down down ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 24 stairs stair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 ! ! PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ 26 » » PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 27 — - PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 boast boast NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:obl 30 that that SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 31 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 32 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 33 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 36 advmod _ _ 34 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 36 cop _ _ 35 very very ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 brave brave ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 acl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fall down** | gerund | Alice *not said here* | the rabbit hole | | | | | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient hole=Result | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Alice | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | shall | Alice | nothing | | | after such fall as this | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme | | 4 | **tumble down** *in a quote* | gerund | | stairs | | | | | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stair=Theme | | 5 | **is** | future | Alice | a boast *not said here* | | | now | brave *property* | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:language:054-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad.lesson:9`. **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: [Off with her head and the finest house…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/54-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad/8/) - next →: [Off with her head and the finest house…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/54-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/54-off-with-her-head-and-the-finest-house-on-the-river-alice-and-toad/)