Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1: Down the Rabbit-Hole (the fall), sentence 0

Alice is sitting on a grassy bank next to her big sister on a hot, sleepy day, bored stiff, because her sister's book has no pictures and no talking in it.

Who acts: Alice, book · What happens: sit, have · To what, where: grassy bank, pictures

This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter I, part 1: Down the Rabbit-Hole (the fall)» of the books 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, book), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sitting	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sitting	aux
3	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 bank	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bank	det
6	grassy	grassy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bank	amod
7	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sitting	obl
8	next	next	ADV	_	12 sister	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 sister	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 sister	nmod:poss
11	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sister	amod
12	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sitting	obl
13	on	on	ADP	_	18 day	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 day	det
15	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 day	amod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hot	punct
17	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 day	amod
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sitting	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 stiff	punct
20	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 stiff	amod
21	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sitting	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 has	punct
23	because	because	SCONJ	_	28 has	mark
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 sister	nmod:poss
25	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 book	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 sister	case
27	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 has	nsubj
28	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sitting	advcl
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 pictures	det
30	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 has	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 talking	cc
32	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	33 talking	det
33	talking	talking	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 pictures	conj
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 it	case
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 pictures	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	present · progressive	Alice			a grassy bank	day	to Alice's big sister	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location
2	have	present	Alice's sister's book	no pictures and no talking					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Patient

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, 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:001-alice-ch1-part1-down-the-rabbit-hole.lesson:0.

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.

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